Rocks and Waves

Kano Motonobu’s “Rocks and Waves” is a fragment of a sliding door, now a hanging scroll. Ink and gold wash on paper, early to mid-1500s.

The work’s medium includes ink and gold wash, traditional in Japanese art. Originally part of a sliding door, it now serves as a hanging scroll.

This piece is from the Muromachi period, significant for its cultural and artistic developments in Japan.

Motonobu was influential in establishing the Kanō school, training many painters during the Edo period.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.462

https://oolf.net/open-art/motonobu-rocks-and-waves/