id: 135273
accession number: 1958.289
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The Bird's Nest Patriarch, early to mid-1600s. Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570-c. 1640). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; image: 95.8 x 38.7 cm (37 11/16 x 15 1/4 in.); overall: 187.3 x 50.8 cm (73 3/4 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1958.289
title: The Bird's Nest Patriarch
title in original language: 鳥窠道林禅師像
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creation date: early to mid-1600s
creation date earliest: 1600
creation date latest: 1640
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creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
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culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
technique: hanging scroll; ink on paper
department: Japanese Art
collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570-c. 1640) - artist
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measurements: Image: 95.8 x 38.7 cm (37 11/16 x 15 1/4 in.); Overall: 187.3 x 50.8 cm (73 3/4 x 20 in.)
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inscription: signed at the lower left of the scroll and sealed "Inen" in red circular form.
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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: 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: Rimpa
opening date: 1971-09-13T04:00:00
Rimpa. Japan Society Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (September 13-November 13, 1971).
title: Rin-pa
opening date: 1972-10-10T04:00:00
Rin-pa. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (October 10-December 3, 1972).
title: Rimpa Painting
opening date: 1989-09-19T04:00:00
Rimpa Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989).
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: Rimpa
opening date: 2004-08-21T00:00:00
Rimpa. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (August 21-October 3, 2004).
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: Sotatsu: Making Waves
opening date: 2015-10-24T00:00:00
Sotatsu: Making Waves. National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (October 24, 2015-January 31, 2016).
title: Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235
opening date: 2020-10-16T04:00:00
Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 23, 2020-January 17, 2021).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Tea taste in Japanese art. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Masterpieces of Japanese Art. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas (October 4-November 30, 1969).', 'opening_date': '1969-10-04T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Mathias Komor [1909–1984], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1958
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1958–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
“Annual Report of the Year 1958.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 6 (June 1959): 111–158.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 117, 129-131
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142346
S. E. L. “Year in Review.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 10 (December 1959): 210–231.
page number: Reproduced: p. 226
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142366
Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.
page number: Mentioned: p. 64; Reproduced: p. 65; cat. no. 63
url: https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDecorativeStyle/page/n79
Asia Society, and Sherman E. Lee. Tea Taste in Japanese Art. [New York]: [dist. by H. Abrams], 1963.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 53, p. 106
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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. 52
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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. 382
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n402
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: no. 12.87, p. 569
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Lippit, Yukio. "Making Waves: Tawaraya Sotatsu at the Freer and Sackler Galleries." Orientations 46, no. 7 (October 2015): 68–77.
page number: Reproduced: p. 72, fig. 4
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Lippit, Yukio, James T. Ulak, Keiko Nakamachi, Shunroku Okudaira, Ryō Furuta, Takeshi Noguchi, and Aya Ōta. Sōtatsu. Washington, DC : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2015.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 36, p. 260
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