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Autumn Grasses

Tawaraya Sosetsu

Autumn Grasses exhibition

Autumn Grasses

High-resolution facsimiles

Material
printed, gold on washi paper
Period of creation
Tsuzuri Project Stage 13 2019–2020
Recipient
Tokyo National Museum(National Institutes for Cultural Heritage)

Original

Cultural property designation
Important Cultural Property
Artist
Tawaraya Sosetsu
Historical era
Edo (17th century)
Material
ink, color, and gold on washi paper
Medium
Pair of six-fold screens
Size
Each screen H158.5 × W362.6 cm
Collection
Tokyo National Museum

Description

This is a pair of folding screens. It features gentle, overlapping, gold slopes tinged with translucent, light-green hues. Plants like pampas grass, chrysanthemums, bush clovers, sunset hibiscuses, Confederate roses and yellow patrinias bloom thickly across the slopes. The types of plants suggest the screens are depicting summer through to autumn. The painter has predominantly used white, green and yellow tones to lend a refreshing sense of uniformity to the depictions of various flora. The chrysanthemums on the left and right edges are rendered using thick layers of gofun, a white pigment made from mollusc shells. They are more-or-less the same size, so the picture still matches up even when the screen order is reversed. We hope you enjoy the feeling of walking through an endless field of flowers and plants beneath a clear autumn sky.

— Cited from Colbase

How the Works Are Created

How the Works Are Created

This section introduces the production process of high resolution facsimiles by combining Canon’s latest imaging technology and the authentic craftsmanship of Kyoto in the Tsuzuri Project.

About the Tsuzuri Project

About the Tsuzuri Project

This section shares the significance and passion behind the Tsuzuri Project and how we utilize the high resolution facsimiles of precious cultural assets, which are designated as national treasures and important cultural assets, and Japanese artworks that have left Japan.