Bamboo in the Four Seasons: painting and poetry in Japan


Bamboo in the Four Seasons, attributed to Tosa Mistunobu, late 15th to early 16th century (Muromachi period), Japan, ink, color and gold leaf on paper, each screen 157 x 360 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Speakers: Sonia Coman and Steven Zucker

 

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Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto talks about Bamboo in the Four Seasons. Video by The Met: The Artist Series.


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Cite this page as: Dr. Sonia Coman and Dr. Steven Zucker, "Bamboo in the Four Seasons: painting and poetry in Japan," in Smarthistory, March 16, 2018, accessed June 9, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/tosa-mistunobu/.