# Birds and Flowers, in Kano Mitsunobu's contemporaries

Kano Mitsunobu painted this in the late 1500s. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> The landscape depicted in this pair of screens follows a seasonal progression from right to left, starting with the blossoming plum of early spring and ending with late autumn peonies.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: late 1500s
- Medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 155.5 x 340 cm (61 1/4 x 133 7/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1948.128
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Kano Mitsunobu](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/kano-mitsunobu), Japanese, 1565–1608

Mitsunobu was the eldest son of Kanō Eitoku and led the Kanō school after his father’s death in 1590.

1 works in the collection.

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