id: 141200 accession number: 1964.44 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.44 updated: 2025-08-30 11:08:36.061000 Bodhidharma Crossing the Yangzi on a Reed, 1300s. China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; painting only: 91.1 x 36.5 cm (35 7/8 x 14 3/8 in.); overall: 175 x 38.5 cm (68 7/8 x 15 3/16 in.); overall with knobs: 175 x 43 cm (68 7/8 x 16 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1964.44 title: Bodhidharma Crossing the Yangzi on a Reed title in original language: 蘆葉達磨圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1300s creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1399 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) technique: hanging scroll; ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Painting only: 91.1 x 36.5 cm (35 7/8 x 14 3/8 in.); Overall: 175 x 38.5 cm (68 7/8 x 15 3/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 175 x 43 cm (68 7/8 x 16 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 蘆花風起浪頭高，少室岩前去路遙。/ 劫外一花開五葉，腳跟正好喫藤條。 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1964) opening date: 1964-12-08T05:00:00 Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965). title: The Colors of Ink opening date: 1974-01-10T04:00:00 The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974). title: 茶の美術 : 特別展 (Art of the Tea Ceremony) opening date: 1980-10-07T04:00:00 茶の美術 : 特別展 (Art of the Tea Ceremony). Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (October 7-November 24, 1980). title: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting opening date: 1981-02-11T05:00:00 Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 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: 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: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900 opening date: 2013-10-26T00:00:00 Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (October 26, 2013-January 19, 2014). title: Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c) opening date: 2017-02-11T05:00:00 Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017). title: China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00 China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Tea taste in Japanese art. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-01-01T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2003-10-29T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Okazaki Masaya 岡崎正也 [late 1800s-early 1900s], Tokyo, Japan date: footnotes: citations: Yamamoto Yoshiaki 山本義章 [early 1900s], Tokyo, Japan date: footnotes: citations: Fujī Noriyoshi 藤井德義 [1900s], Osaka, Japan date: footnotes: citations: (N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1964 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1964- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Yonezawa, "Dharma," Kokka, no. 827 (February 1961), pp. 79-80. page number: Reproduced: pp. 79-80, pl. 8 url: Lee, Sherman E. Tea Taste in Japanese Art. New York: distributed by H. Abrams, 1963. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 3, p. 94; Mentioned: cat. no. 3, p. 17 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. 261 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n285 Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. page number: cat. no. 209 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. 261 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n285 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: pp. 243–244, figs. 5, 5a url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152451 Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. page number: cat. no. 24 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. 346 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n366 Zainie, Carla M. “Sources for Some Early Japanese Ink Paintings.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 7 (September 1978): 232–246. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 233–234, fig. 2 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159592 Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 99, p. 124 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. 48, cat. no. 25 url: Zhang, Hongxing, Lizhong Ling, Masaaki Itakura, Charles Q. Mason, Shane McCausland, Camille Schmitt, and Clarissa von Spee, and Roderick Whitfield. Masterpieces of Chinese Painting, 700-1900. London: V&A Publishing, 2013. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 50, pp. 226–227 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 114-116 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.44/1964.44_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.44/1964.44_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.44/1964.44_full.tif