Nunobiki Waterfall, Mount Yoshino, and Tatsuta River

Kano Tsunenobu

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The paintings form a triptych depicting three of Japan’s most celebrated “famous sites” (meisho), each illustrating an episode made famous in the tenth‑century Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari). The painting corpus of Tsunenobu, a nephew and pupil of Kano Tan’yū (1602–1674), shows how Kano artists’ determined efforts to incorporate traditional subjects and blend the style of yamato‑e (indigenous Japanese painting) into their primarily Chinese‑based oeuvre.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.

Metropolitan Museum of Art