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Artist: Kano Tan'yū (Japanese, 1602–1674)
Date: 1670
Medium: One of a pair of handscrolls; ink on paper
Dimensions: 10 7/8 in. x 10 ft. 7 5/8 in. (27.6 x 324.2 cm)
Type: Painting
Classification: Paintings
Department: Asian Art
Credit line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975
Accession no.: 1975.268.52

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; Four Elders of Mt. Shang
Kano Tan’yū
1600s · Painting
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00010001
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
Kano Tan’yū
1600s · Painting
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00010045
Four Elders of Mt. Shang
Kano Tan’yū
1600s · Painting
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00010046
The Four Seasons
Kano Tan’yū
1668 · Painting
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00010104

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.