id: 139454 accession number: 1963.262 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.262 updated: 2025-09-04 11:12:04.172000 Landscape, early 1500s. Sōami (Japanese, d. 1525). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; image: 128.5 x 111.7 cm (50 9/16 x 44 in.); overall: 253 x 137.8 cm (99 5/8 x 54 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1963.262 title: Landscape title in original language: 山水図 series: series in original language: creation date: early 1500s creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1525 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573) technique: hanging scroll; ink on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Sōami (Japanese, d. 1525) - artist --- measurements: Image: 128.5 x 111.7 cm (50 9/16 x 44 in.); Overall: 253 x 137.8 cm (99 5/8 x 54 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1963) opening date: 1963-11-27T05:00:00 Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964). title: Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections opening date: 1977-03-23T05:00:00 Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977). title: One Thousand Years of Japanese Art [Japan House, New York] opening date: 1981-03-01T00:00:00 One Thousand Years of Japanese Art [Japan House, New York]. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 1, 1981). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting opening date: 1985-10-01T04:00:00 Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1985-February 24, 1986). title: Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia opening date: 1987-10-02T04:00:00 Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987). title: The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th Century Art in Japan opening date: 1991-10-19T04:00:00 The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th Century Art in Japan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19-December 1, 1991). 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 Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art opening date: 2011-03-27T00:00:00 The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi period: An exhibition in honor of Shūjirō Shimada. The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (April 25–June 13, 1976).', 'opening_date': '1976-06-13T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE originally Soami's only series of Hsiao-Hsiang in Daisen-in, Kyoto, Japan, one of twenty panels in Abbot's Quarters of the Temple date: footnotes: citations: Kosaka Junzo date: footnotes: citations: Fukuoka Kotei date: footnotes: citations: Matsudaira date: footnotes: citations: (N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1963 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1963- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1963.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 10 (December 1963): 263–294. page number: Mentioned: no. 62, p. 292; Reproduced: no. 62, p. 285 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151974 "Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1963." Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 18 (1964): pp. 69-91. page number: Reproduced: p. 72, fig. 14 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20067074 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. 279 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n303 Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉, ed. Japanese Art in the West. Tokyo: Mayuyama & Co., 1966. page number: Mentioned: p. 350; Reproduced: p. 157, pl. 183 url: Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: no. 73 url: 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. 279 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n303 Shūjirō Shimada 島田修二郎. Japanese Paintings in Western Collections 在外秘宝 : 欧米收蔵日本絵画集成. Tōkyō: 学習研究社, 1969. page number: Mentioned: Vol. II, pt. 1, p. 122; Reproduced: Vol. II, pt. 2, pl. 94 url: Lee, Sherman E. “Zen in Art: Art in Zen.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 9 (November 1972): 239–259. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 16 and 16a, pp. 256–257 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152451 Shimizu, Yoshiaki, and Carolyn Wheelwright. Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi Period: an Exhibition in Honor of Shūjirō Shimada. Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University: Distributed by Princeton University Press, 1976. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 22, pp. 170–179 url: Shimizu, Yoshiaki 清水, 義明 and Carolyn Wheelwright, eds. Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi Period : An Exhibition in Honor of Shūjirō Shimada. Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University : Distributed by Princeton University Press, 1976. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 22, pp. 170–179 url: "Japanese Art in the World." The Sun no. 21 (Winter 1977). page number: Reproduced: p. 56, fig. 49 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. 377 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n397 Zaigai Nihon no shihō[在外日本の至宝 = Japanese Art: Selections from Western Collections]. Tōkyō: Mainichi Shimbunsha 每日新聞社, 1978–1981. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: vol. 3, no. 66, p. 140, color pl. 66 url: Etō Shun 衛藤駿. Sōami, Shōkei 相阿弥・祥啓. Shohan. Tōkyō: 集英社, 1979. page number: Reproduced: pl. 50 url: Hamada, Takashi 濱田隆 and others. Zaigai bijutsu: Kaiga [在外美術: 絵画 = Japanese Art Abroad (paintings)]. Tōkyō: Shogakkan 小学館, 1980. page number: Reproduced: color pl. 53 url: 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: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 58–59, no. 29 url: Seirō Maekawa 前川誠郎. Yama to mizu[山と水 = Mountains and Water]. Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten 岩波書店, 1985. page number: Reproduced: pl. 13 url: Shimizu, Christine. Les Laques Du Japon: Urushi. Paris: Flammarion, 1988. page number: Reproduced: p. 160 url: Chance, Frank L. “Tani Bunchō’s Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang: Origins, Ideas, Implications.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 8 (October 1989): 266–279. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 269, fig. 1 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160086 Cunningham, Michael R. The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th-Century Art in Japan. Cleveland, OH: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1991. page number: Reproduced: pp. 44–45 url: Oriental Art vol. XXXVIII, no. 1 (Spring 1992). page number: Reproduced: p. 46, fig. 10 url: Tsuji Nobuo 辻惟雄. Sesshū to yamatoe byōbu 雪舟とやまと絵屏風. Tōkyō: Kodansha 講談社, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 133, fig. 85 url: Yūzō Yamane 山根有三, Takashi Hamada 濱田隆, et al. Zaigai bijutsu from the serlies Genshoku nihon no bijutsu [Selections of Japanese Art from Western Collections] 在外美術. 2nd Edition.. Tōkyō: Shogakkan 小学館, 1994. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 86 and 240, no. 53 url: 島尾新 Arata Shimao. Suibokuga: Nōami kara Kanō-ha e 水墨画 : 能阿弥から狩野派へ. Tōkyō: Shibundō 至文堂, 1994. page number: Reproduced: p. 15, fig. 15 url: Cunningham, Michael. “Notes on the Artist Sōami and a Lost Painting.” Monumenta Serica 43 (1995): 405–438. page number: Reproduced: pl. 2, p. 421 and pl. 14, p. 437 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40727073 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]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 108, cat. no. 72 url: Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 15 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: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 31, p. 103 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.262/1963.262_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.262/1963.262_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.262/1963.262_full.tif