id: 133012
accession number: 1955.44
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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
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creation date: 1200s
creation date earliest: 1200
creation date latest: 1299
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creditline: Gift of The Norweb Foundation
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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
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CREATORS
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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.)
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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).
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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'}
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PROVENANCE
(Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1955
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1955-
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Images of the Mind. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
page number: Reproduced: [p. 21]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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