Four Seasons Picture - Shikie

Japanese: 四季絵 - しきえ

A painting that depicts human affairs and nature in the order of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. In the early and middle Heian period (late 9th century to 10th century), it became the main type of folding screen painting associated with waka poetry, and is sometimes used as a synonym for tsukinamie. The concept of four seasons painting remained the basis of Japanese painting for a long time after the Middle Ages, and the tradition of composing the picture in the order of the four seasons, such as the composition method of emakimono scrolls, ink-wash landscape scrolls, and landscape and flower and bird folding screen paintings, has been inherited until the early modern period.

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Japanese:

春夏秋冬の順に人事や自然を選び描いた絵画。平安時代初・中期 (9世紀末～10世紀) に和歌と結びついた屏風障子絵の主要な部門となり，月次絵 (つきなみえ) の同義語として用いられた場合もある。四季絵の概念は中世以後も長く日本絵画の基調となり，絵巻物の構成法や水墨の山水図巻，山水花鳥の屏風絵など，画面を四季の順を追って構成統一する伝統は近世まで継承されている。

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