Nunobiki Waterfall, Mount Yoshino, and Tatsuta River, 滝見業平図, Edo period (1615–1868), after 1709, Japan, Triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk, Image (a): 58 9/16 × 31 1/2 in. (148.7 × 80 cm), Paintings, Kano Tsunenobu (Japanese, 1636–1713), The paintings form a triptych depicting three of Japan’s most celebrated “famous sites” (meisho), each illustrating an episode made famous in the tenth‑century Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari). The painting corpus of Tsunenobu, a nephew and pupil of Kano Tan’yū (1602–1674), shows how Kano artists’ determined efforts to incorporate traditional subjects and blend the style of yamato‑e (indigenous Japanese painting) into their primarily Chinese‑based oeuvre
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