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Emperor Yao Visiting Yu Chonghua
Emperor Yao Visiting Yu Chonghua
mid- to late 1600s
Kusumi Morikage 久隅 守景
(Japanese, active c. 1620–1690)
(1615-1868)
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink, slight color, and gold on paper
Image: 131.9 x 348 cm (51 15/16 x 137 in.); Including mounting: 147.3 x 363.7 cm (58 x 143 3/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1968.105
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One of a pair, this screen shows a section of the narrative of how the Chinese Emperor Yao (about 2356–2255 BC) selected his successor, Yu Chonghua (about 2294– 2184 BC), who would become Emperor Shun. The artist who painted this screen, Kusumi Morikage, trained with Kano Tan’yō (1602–1647), painter-in-residence to Japan’s shogun, the country’s ruler, and was one of his four top students. Despite the conservative subject matter, Morikage’s distinctive sensibility shines through in his playful treatment of the gray and white elephants in the far left panel of the composition. According to legend, Chonghua was so virtuous that in the spring, elephants bounded down from the mountains to help him till the soil with their tusks.
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