Mynah Birds

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A myriad of mynah birds\u2014flying, strutting, and resting against the gold and blue of the shore\u2014is captured in frozen motion. This is one of few surviving examples of the theme of a flock of blackbirds in a screen format. The artist has created an engaging sense of pattern through clever groupings while using punctilious brushwork to imbue each bird with animated expression.Though not native to Japan, according to East Asian literary tradition, mynah birds served as emblems of honesty, independent thinking, and even resistance to unjust authority. Whether or not this work\u2014created in Japan when the shogunate was beginning to usurp the prerogatives of the emperor and religious establishments\u2014can be interpreted as a political protest is impossible to know, but the unusual iconography of clusters of mynah birds to the exclusion of any other animal, bird, or even landscape element lends itself to such an interpretation.The Chinese monk-painter Mu Qi (active until 1279) is known to have created numerous paintings on the theme of mynah birds, and Japanese artists emulated Mu Qi\u2019s compositions on the subject. The work dates to the era of Japanese painting when artists of the Kano school and independent artists such as Hasegawa T\u014dhaku (1539\u20131610) and Kaih\u014d Y\u016bsh\u014d(1533\u20131615) were reformulating continental styles of ink painting to create their own distinct styles.

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