Entertainments of the Four Seasons in Kyoto

ca. 1770 - 1777

Maruyama Okyo, Artist Takahashi Munenao, Artist

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Entertainments of the Four Seasons in Kyoto

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About the Artwork

Maruyama Ōkyo was the master of the realist school of painting in eighteenth-century Japan. Ōkyo’s brilliant talent in genre painting is evident in his execution of the popular time-honored theme of seasonal activities. A scene of a summer night gathering along the cool banks of the Kamo River at the intersection of Shijo Street is preceded by a scene of spring cherry blossoms and followed by scenes of the fall lantern festival and the winter preparations for the New Year’s festivities. Between the scenes are sections of spontaneous cursive-style narrative text by the renowned calligrapher Takahashi Munenao.

Title Entertainments of the Four Seasons in Kyoto

Artwork Date ca. 1770 - 1777

Makers Maruyama Okyo (Artist) Japanese, 1733-1795 Takahashi Munenao (Artist) Japanese, 1701 - 1785

Medium Ink on paper

Dimensions Overall (Painting): 11 1/4 inches × 46 feet 3 3/8 inches (28.6 cm × 14 m 10.7 cm) Overall (Overall height of scroll): 11 15/16 inches (30.4 cm) Image (Spring scene): 11 1/4 × 44 13/16 inches (28.6 × 113.8 cm) Image (Summer scene): 11 1/4 × 52 5/8 inches (28.6 × 133.7 cm) Image (Autumn scene): 11 1/4 × 44 13/16 inches (28.6 × 113.9 cm) Image (Winter scene): 11 1/4 × 45 1/4 inches (28.6 × 114.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department Asian Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Edsel and Eleanor Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund, Alan and Marianne Schwartz Fund with funds from Michigan National Corporation, Mrs. Howard J. Stoddard and Mr. and Mrs. Stanford C. Stoddard

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1983.21

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Inscriptions Calligraphy, throughout: [text by Takashasi Munenao]

Marks Stamp, in red, lower right, on first sheet: [seal]

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Hara Collection.
(Mayuyama and Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan);
1983-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Taki, Dr. Seiichi. Kokka, no. 331.

"Founders Society Reports." Bulletin of the DIA 61, no. 3 (1982/83): p. 35 (ill.).

100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 58-59 (ill.).

Yoshizawa, Chu. "Maruyama Okyo hitsu shiki yuraku zukan shita-e ni tsuite." (The draft of Maruyama Okyo's Handscroll of "Merriments of the Four Seasons".) Kokka, no. 1081 (1985): pp. 11-19.

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Maruyama Okyo; Takahashi Munenao, Entertainments of the Four Seasons in Kyoto, ca. 1770 - 1777, ink on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Edsel and Eleanor Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund, Alan and Marianne Schwartz Fund, et al., 1983.21.