2-740-009 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Seasonal Landscapes, mid- to late 1500s. Now comprising three scrolls, this composition was originally a set of four paintings depicting the seasons. The set is among the most important of the artist’s surviving works. Each painting was executed in the gyo mode, indicating a speedy brush with rounded strokes. The terms shin (formal), so (cursive), and gyo (semicursive), borrowed from calligraphy terminology, are terms commonly used by connoisseurs to describe brushwork in ink paintings.