id: 133012 accession number: 1955.44 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.44 updated: 2024-04-25 14:35:58.384000 The White Path Between Two Rivers, 1200s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333). Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold, silver, and cut gold on silk; overall: 215.1 x 67.7 cm (84 11/16 x 26 5/8 in.); overall with knobs: 215.1 x 73.3 cm (84 11/16 x 28 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Norweb Foundation 1955.44 title: The White Path Between Two Rivers title in original language: 二河白道図 series: series in original language: creation date: 1200s creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1299 current location: creditline: Gift of The Norweb Foundation copyright: --- culture: Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333) technique: hanging scroll; ink, color, gold, silver, and cut gold on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 215.1 x 67.7 cm (84 11/16 x 26 5/8 in.); Overall with knobs: 215.1 x 73.3 cm (84 11/16 x 28 7/8 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: Journey of the Three Jewels: Japanese Buddhist Paintings in Western Collections opening date: 1979-10-11T04:00:00 Journey of the Three Jewels: Japanese Buddhist Paintings in Western Collections. Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (organizer) (October 11-December 9, 1979); Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (March 27-May 11, 1980). title: Reflections of Reality in Japanese Art opening date: 1983-03-16T04:00:00 Reflections of Reality in Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 16-May 1, 1983). title: Images of the Mind opening date: 1987-07-07T04:00:00 Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987). title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00 Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). title: The Cooperative Program of the Conservation of Japanese Art Objects in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2001-05-24T00:00:00 The Cooperative Program of the Conservation of Japanese Art Objects in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties (organizer). 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). title: Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-01-15T00:00:00 Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). title: Heaven and Hell: Salvation and Retribution in Pure Land Buddhism opening date: 2017-06-16T04:00:00 Heaven and Hell: Salvation and Retribution in Pure Land Buddhism. San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (organizer) (June 16-September 10, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-July 16, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-03-12T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1955 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1955- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sano, Emily J., Randall Laird Nadeau, Alison J. Miller, Erin K. Murphy, and Katherine Crawford Luber. Heaven and Hell: Salvation and Retribution in Pure Land Buddhism. 2017. Plate 59 page number: 112 url: 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. 910 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n160 Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 19-20; cat. no. 19 url: https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDecorativeStyle/page/n35 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 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, Ursula Korneitchouk, Michael R Cunningham, Ursula Korneitchouk, Cleveland Museum of Art, Japan House Gallery, Japan Society (New York, N.Y.), and Japan House Gallery. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 34-35, no. 14 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Images of the Mind. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987. page number: Reproduced: [p. 21] url: Grotennuis, Elizabeth Ten. "Visions of a Transcendent Realm: Pure Land Images in the Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 7 (1991): 274-300. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 292-297 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161334 Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三, Takashi Hamada 濱田隆, et al. Zaigai bijutsu [在外美術 = Selections of Japanese Art from Western Collections]. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1994. page number: Mentioned: pp. 23 and 242, no. 15 url: Aoyagi, Masanori 青柳正規. Nihon bijutsukan [日本美術館 = The art museum of Japan. Tōkyō: Shōgakkan, 1997. page number: Reproduced: p. 365 url: Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 90, cat. no. 57 url: Finkel, Irving L., and Colin Mackenzie. Asian Games: The Art of Contest. [New York]: Asia Society, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 80, fig. 6:3 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: p. 42 url: Szostak, John D. “Two Paths to the Pure Land: The Niga-Byakudō Theme and the Modernist Buddhist Art of Hada Teruo.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 57, 2007, pp. 121–150. page number: Reproduced: p. 123, fig. 2 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20111349 Ulak, James T. "The Alchemy of Selection: Lee and the Japanese Collection," Orientations vol. 40, no. 5 (June 2009), pp. 41-47. page number: Reproduced: p. 43, fig. 4 url: Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 5, pp. 32-34 url: Sano, Emily J., Randall Laird Nadeau, and Alison J. Miller. Heaven and Hell: Salvation and Retribution in Pure Land Buddhism. San Antonio, TX: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 112, pl. 59 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.44/1955.44_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.44/1955.44_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.44/1955.44_full.tif