Anonymous Kano School (Edo period)Birds in a Flowering Landscape
Large eight-panel folding screen, ink, color and gold foil on paper; featuring a large pheasant perched on a large rock above his mate and framed by lush flowering peony bushes and a large cherry tree in full blossom, the background with a cascading stream flowing towards a small outcropping on the far left anchored by a clump of blossoming iris and visited by a kingfisher, wagtail and other types of water fowl and song birds (some wear, later addition of the upper portion).
68 1/8 x 135 1/2in (173 x 347.2cm)