Kanō Tan'yū

1602–1674 · Japan

Kanō Tan'yū (4 March 1602 – 4 November 1674) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school. One of the foremost Kanō painters of the Tokugawa period, many of the best known Kanō works today are by Tan'yū. Wikipedia

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Works

“Birds and Flowers” — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The Sixth Patriarch of Zen at the Moment of Enlightenment”, 1635–1645 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Fisherman”, 1638 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Landscape in Moonlight”, 1668 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Sparrow and Bamboo”, 1649 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Jizō Bosatsu Playing a Flute”, 1634–1666 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Famous Themes for Painting Study Known as “The Garden of Painting” (Gaen)”, 1670 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Famous Themes for Painting Study Known as “The Garden of Painting” (Gaen)”, 1635 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Summer Landscape”, 1662 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Squirrel on Bamboo”, 1650 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Ducks and Reeds”, 1650 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Hotei” — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Portrait of Emperor Shennong”, 1665 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Sakyamuni Emerging from the Mountain” — Yale University Art Gallery
“Cloudy Mountain” — Yale University Art Gallery
“Bird, Flower and Various Chinese Figure” — Yale University Art Gallery
“Gibbons Reaching for the Moon”, 1638 — Cleveland Museum of Art
“Phoenixes by Paulownia Trees”
“Water-Moon Kannon” — Los Angeles County Museum of Art
“Broken-Ink Landscape (Haboku sansui zu)” — Harvard Art Museums