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Sesson Shūkei

Dragon and Tiger

c. 1546–56
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink on paper
172.3 × 354 cm (67.8 × 139.4 in)

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Sesson's dragon, winding in and out of clouds, may have taken inspiration from Chinese Ming-dynasty works in the style of 13th-century Chinese painter Chen Rong.

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