Mountain Landscape in Autumn and Winter, 16th century, Unknown Japanese, 58 9/16 ¡Ñ 135 5/8 in. (148.75 ¡Ñ 344.49 cm) (image)65 3/4 ¡Ñ 142 3/4 ¡Ñ 3/8 in. (167.01 ¡Ñ 362.59 ¡Ñ 0.95 cm) (outer frame), Ink, color, and gold on paper, Japan, 16th century, This work¡Xwhich would have been paired with a right-hand screen depicting spring and summer¡Xis representative of folding screens painted from about 1500¡V1550 depicting Japanese landscapes of the four seasons in the so-called yamato-e ('Japanese painting') style, in contrast to the Chinese-style ink paintings of nonnative scenery that were also prevalent at this time. This left-hand screen depicts a stream that meanders through the foreground from right to left, past a hill crowned by a profusion of autumn grasses¡XEulalia grass, bellflower, bush clover, Patrinia¡Xand toward another promontory, this one laden with snow and capped by a barren tree, bamboo grass, and Ardisia. A few faint lines indicate a patchwork of harvested rice fields in the middle ground. Farthest back are mountains topped with trees and snow, visually separated from the rest of the image by a bank of golden clouds.