id: 129862 accession number: 1952.286 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.286 updated: 2023-05-23 11:06:50.662000 Swift Bull from the Ten Swift Bulls, late 1200s–early 1300s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333). Section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper; overall: 27.1 x 31.9 cm (10 11/16 x 12 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1952.286 title: Swift Bull from the Ten Swift Bulls title in original language: 駿牛図　断簡 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1200s–early 1300s creation date earliest: 1275 creation date latest: 1333 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333) technique: section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 27.1 x 31.9 cm (10 11/16 x 12 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Japanese Decorative Style opening date: 1961-08-30T04:00:00 Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961). title: Tea Taste in Japanese Art opening date: 1963-02-20T05:00:00 Tea Taste in Japanese Art. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (February 20-April 21, 1963). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). title: 120th Anniversary Exhibition: Masterpieces in the Tokyo National Museum opening date: 1992-10-13T04:00:00 120th Anniversary Exhibition: Masterpieces in the Tokyo National Museum. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (October 13-November 23, 1992). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Masterpieces of Japanese Art. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas (October 4-November 30, 1969) * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 11-July 13, 2004). --- PROVENANCE Shimbi Tanaka, Tokyo, Japan date: footnotes: citations: (Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1952 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1952– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: We know the original scroll had ten bulls because a copy of the complete scroll exists. digital description: wall description: Across the world, animals once played a much larger role in the transportation of the elite. Members of Japan’s imperial court traveled in vehicles pulled by oxen until the late 1400s, when oxcarts were restricted to ceremonial use. One sign of the past importance of the ox as a status symbol survives in this fragment from a scroll of portraits of 10 speedy bulls. The painter layered washes containing differing ratios of black ink to water to create a three-dimensional effect. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Toda, Kenji. Japanese Scroll Painting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935. page number: p. 102 url: Tōru Mori 森暢. "Sunggyu Zukan no Tsuite" 駿牛図卷に就いて. In Meihin techō: Nihon bijutsu ronshū 名品手帖: 日本美術論集. Ōguchi, Masao 大口理夫, editor. Tōkyō: Sōgeisha, 1944. page number: Vol. 1, p. 97 url: Lee, Sherman E. "One of the Ten Fast Bulls." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 40, no. 9 (1953): 199–200. page number: Mentioned: pp. 199–200 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141910 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 913 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n160 Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. Tokyo: Makoto Nakao, 1962. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 32-33; cat. no. 27 url: https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDecorativeStyle/page/n45 Lee, Sherman E. Tea Taste in Japanese Art. New York, NY: The Asia House Gallery, dist. by H. Abrams, 1963. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 57, p. 107 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 276 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n300 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 276 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n300 Masterpieces of Japanese Art; [Catalogue of the Exhibition] October 4 Through November 30, 1969, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1969. page number: Reproduced: pl. 20 url: Stern, Harold P. Birds, Beasts, Blossoms, and Bugs: The Nature of Japan. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1976. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 4, p. 16; Reproduced: p. 19 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 374 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n394 Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981. page number: url: Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉. Bijutsushō no yorokobi [美術商のよろこび The Joys of an Art Dealer]. Tokyo, Japan: Mayuyama Junkichi, 1988. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 89-99, pl. 35 url: Kita, Sandy. “The Bulls of Chōmyōji: A Joint Work by Sōtatsu and Mitsuhiro.” Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 47, no. 4, 1992, pp. 495–519. page number: Reproduced: p. 505 url: www.jstor.org/stable/2385332 "1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95. page number: Mentioned: p. 247 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418 Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 194–195 url: Wada, Stephanie, Gen P. Sakamoto, and Kuoʻan. The Oxherder: A Zen Parable Illustrated. New York: George Braziller, 2002. page number: Reproduced: fig. 10, pp. 28–29 url: Art of Japan: Paintings, Prints and Screens : Selected Articles from Orientations, 1984-2002. Hong Kong: Orientations Magazine, 2002. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 1, 6-6b, pp.134–135 url: Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 31 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.286/1952.286_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.286/1952.286_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.286/1952.286_full.tif