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pdíní f/ie picture of the hawk and had me 96 Flowers and Birds across the foreground toward a lake. Both
write an inscription.... attributed to Sesshü Tóyó (1420-1506) screens emphasize the tactile forms in
Who this Lord Toki was is a matter of pair of six-fold screens; ink and color their lower registers, which sharply con-
space of the
trast with the uncluttered
conjecture. If he was of exactly the same on paper middle and far distance.
generation as the monk Shürin, Toki Ma- each 179.0 x 365.5 (70^2 x 1437/10) Sesshü Tóyó, to whom these screens
safusa (1467-1519), the ninth head of the Muromachi period, c. 1483 are attributed, was a pivotal figure in the
family, might have been the falconer. Kosaka Zentarô Collection, Tokyo development of Japanese ink painting, es-
Other Toki family members known as Important Cultural Property pecially of landscapes. Although these
painters of hawks include Toki Yoritaka screens are unsigned, they are the best in
(dates unknown) and the eleventh figure- On the right screen is a summer scene artistic quality and the earliest in date
head of the Toki family and Constable of with a pair of cranes near a waterfall; on among some two dozen sets of screens of
Mino, Yoriyoshi (d. 1583), who during the the left screen, a winter scene of egrets this subject attributed to Sesshü. This pair
family's downfall in the 15405 escaped to and mandarin ducks in a snowy landscape. was once owned by the Masuda family in
Kai Province (now Yamanashi Prefecture) Rocks, a gnarled pine tree, a crane, and a Shimane Prefecture, descendants of Ma-
to seek protection under the warrior waterfall are all crowded into the lower suda Kanetaka (d. 1485), a local military
Takeda Shingen (1521-1573). In a portrait right of the summer screen; another crane steward (jito) who ruled the territory of
also included here, Shingen is depicted at the center is framed by overhanging Masuda in Iwami Province (part of today's
with a hawk (cat. 17). YS pine branches. In the winter screen, dis-
tant snowy hills stand against a darkened Shimane Prefecture); the Masuda territory
sky; the lower left-hand corner is filled lay immediately to the north of Suó, the
with snow-covered rocks and an old plum territory under the Ouchi's control during
tree that extends its twisting branches the fifteenth century. Sesshü painted a

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