Kusumi MORIKAGE
(Japan circa 1620–1690)
Rural landscape with horses and bulls
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This Arcadian landscape has horses and bulls as the main subject; humans and their activities seem to take a secondary role. The top screen is dominated by the freely roaming, gambolling horses. The season moves from spring on the right with the blossoming plum tree to a summery scene of a mare and her colt in a stream. The bottom screen shows bulls working or playing while the village lads frolic in the landscape. The season shifts from autumn, with farmers carrying harvest, to the snowy winter. Morikage was expelled from the Kano school later in his life and moved from Edo to Kaga (present-day Ishikawa) ruled by the Maeda clan.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.231.
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Japan: Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615–1868
- Year
- 17th century
- Media
- Painting
- Medium
- pair of six-fold screens; ink and gold wash on paper
- Dimensions
- each screen: 152.0 x 346.6cm image; 169.0 x 364.0cm screen
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l.[left screen], in Japanese, ink [inscribed] "Morikage hitsu [drawn by Morikage]" [& artist's seal]. Not dated. Signed l.r.[right screen], in Japanese, ink [inscribed] "Morikage hitsu [drawn by Morikage]" [& artist's seal]. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by Kenneth Myer 1984
- Accession number
- 246.1984.a-b
