Art Kano Eitoku’s national treasure paintings back at Jukoin

[The paintings] are usually entrusted to the care of the Kyoto National Museum while replicas are on display at Jukoin, a sub-temple of Daitokuji in Kita Ward. "I had thought the replicas were also good, but the originals look completely different once they are put back in place," chief priest Kodo Onozawa said. "I feel 400 years of history." The main parts of the paintings were created by Eitoku, the fourth-generation head of the Kano school of painting, in his early years. Shoei was the school's third-generation head. "Birds and Flowers," a set of 16 paintings drawn on sliding doors in the central part of the main hall that features large plum and pine trees, is regarded as Eitoku's representative work. The paintings are back in their original setting for the first time since March 2017. Jukoin, built in 1566 by warlord Miyoshi Yoshitsugu, is the family temple of Sen no Rikyu, a celebrated master of the tea ceremony. The temple, which is usually closed to the public, serves as the grave site for the successive heads of three primary tea schools.

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