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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts

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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts

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Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Haruo Shirane, the Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Text by Sugawara Mitsushige 

Period:
Kamakura period (1185–1333)
Date:
dated 1257
Culture:
Japan
Medium:
Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions:
Overall with mounting: 9 11/16 x 368 1/16 in. (24.6 x 934.9 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Louisa Eldridge McBurney Gift, 1953
Accession Number:
53.7.3

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