Title: Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months with Chinese Calligraphy
Object type: Screens
Date: 16th century; sheets of poetry, one dated 1553
Culture: Japan
Period: Muromachi period (1392–1573)
Artist:  Kano School 
Artist bio: Japanese, 1476–1559
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color and gold leaf on paper
Dimensions: Image (each): 60 11/16 in. × 11 ft. 7 1/8 in. (154.1 × 353.4 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. P. H. B. Frelinghuysen, 1962
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Flowers