{"data": {"id": 127238, "accession_number": "1949.554", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Crossing at Sano (\u4f50\u91ce\u306e\u6e21\u308a\u56f3\u885d\u7acb), c. 1600\u20131640. Studio of Tawaraya S\u014dtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570\u2013c. 1640). Hanging scroll mounted as a single-panel screen; ink, color, and gold on paper; overall: 161.7 x 139.2 x 46.3 cm (63 11/16 x 54 13/16 x 18 1/4 in.); diameter of base: 46.3 cm (18 1/4 in.); painting only: 125.9 x 121.4 cm (49 9/16 x 47 13/16 in.); with frame: 151.9 x 130.1 x 3.2 cm (59 13/16 x 51 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. 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The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961).", "opening_date": "1961-08-30T04:00:00"}, {"id": 302380, "title": "Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections", "description": "<i>Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977).", "opening_date": "1977-03-23T05:00:00"}, {"id": 309844, "title": "Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen", "description": "<i>Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984).", "opening_date": "1984-08-01T04:00:00"}, {"id": 202129, "title": "Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "<i>Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).", "opening_date": "2014-01-15T00:00:00"}, {"id": 373117, "title": "Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235", "description": "<i>Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 23, 2020-January 17, 2021).", "opening_date": "2020-10-16T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1949", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1949-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Like many paintings from the S\u014dtatsu studio, a Kyoto-based atelier that ran the shop Tawaraya, this one is done in ink, mineral colors, and gold, and is formally reminiscent of 12th- and 13th-century paintings associated with the Japanese aristocracy. It depicts a man on horseback with two attendants crossing a bridge that once spanned the Kino River in Sano in eastern Wakayama Prefecture. The composition was inspired by a poem by Fujiwara no Teika (1162\u20131241) that translates as follows: <br><br>I stop my horse, but there is no shelter <br>as I brush off my sleeves <br>at Sano Crossing <br>in the evening snow.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60515704"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1949.554-crossing-at-sano"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 923", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n163"}, {"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. <em>Japanese Decorative Style</em>. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 67, cat. no. 66", "url": "https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDecorativeStyle/page/n81"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 282", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n306"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 282", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n306"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 380", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n400"}, {"citation": "<em>Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> [\u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30d6\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9\u7f8e\u8853\u9928\u5c55 : \u540d\u753b\u3067\u305f\u3069\u308b\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u7f8e Kur\u012bburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: T\u014dky\u014d Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 121, cat. no. 39", "url": null}, {"citation": "Koyama-Richard, Brigitte. <em>Animaux Dans La Peinture Japonaise</em>. Lyon: Nouvelles e\u0301ditions Scala, 2020.", "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 161", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Vilbar, Sinead. \"The Japanese Art Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1915-1951.\" In <em>Great Waves &amp; Mountains: Perspectives and Discoveries in Collecting the Arts of Japan. </em>Natsu Oyobe, and Allysa B. 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