Thatched huts along a shoreline from the <em>Three Dusks</em>
National Museum of Asian Art

Thatched huts along a shoreline from the <em>Three Dusks</em>

Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674) · 1665

Ink and color on silk
National Museum of Asian Art
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of Asian Art

This painting belongs to a set of three by Kano Tan'yu, a leading painter of the Kano school of professional artists. Inspiration for the paintings came from groups of poems known as the "Three Dusks" or "Three Evening Poems." The verse inscribed on this painting was composed by Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241):

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