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Farming and Herding Buffalo in Summer
Also known as: Chinese-style Landscapes (one of a pair); Landscape (one of a pair)
About the Artwork
Hideyori is most famous as the painter of a very early pair of genre screen paintings depicting people enjoying autumn foliage at a shrine-temple complex in Mount Takao near Kyoto. In this scene, people are hard at work farming their fields and herding water buffalo in summer. Such scenes were often associated with promoting the ideal of a prosperous realm, and also with the activities of the 12 months. Historical sources are divided on the biography of painter Kano Hideyori, but many scholars now believe he was the second son of Kano Motonobu, head of the Kyoto-based Kano family atelier.
Exhibition history
Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 21-September 3, 2017).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Kano Hideyori (Japanese, active mid- to late 1500s)
- Date
- mid- to late 1500s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- Mounted: 137.5 x 47.3 cm (54 1/8 x 18 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Gift from the Collection of George Gund III
- Accession no.
- 2015.594
More by Kano Hideyori in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00010153
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