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Title: Autumn Maples with Poem Slips
Date: ca. 1675
Artist: Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691)
Type of art: six-panel screen (one of pair); ink, colors, gold leaf, and gold powder on silk
Note: The slips ( tanzaku) contain quotations of appropriate seasonal poetry from 12th- and 13th-century anthologies. The screens were either commissioned by or given to Tofukumon'in (1607-1678), a daughter of the Tokugawa shogun who married the emperor Gomizunoo (1596-1680).
Source and information: Art Institute Chicago
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