A Japanese screen
Kano Yasunobu (1613-1685)
Five Horses
Large six panel screen, ink on paper; a pastoral depiction of five grazing and gamboling steeds; signed Hogen Eishin hitsu and with seal Fujiwara Yasunobu.
75 x 148in (190.5 x 376cm)
Footnotes

Kano Yasunobu was the brother to artists Tan’yu and Naonobu. He founded the Nakabashi Kano school and was regarded as the eighth-generation head of the Kyoto Kano line. He signed many certificates of authentication for Kano paintings (Laurence P. Roberts, A Dictionary of Japanese Artists’ p.199).

horse Kano Yasunobu