id:			143752
accession number:	1968.193.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.193.1
updated:		2022-01-04 16:38:33.098000

Flowers and Grasses, mid-1600s. Kitagawa Sōsetsu (Japanese, active 1639-50). One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper; image: 153.7 x 329.2 cm (60 1/2 x 129 5/8 in.); including mounting: 170.2 x 348.4 cm (67 x 137 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1968.193.1

title:				Flowers and Grasses
title in original language:	花草図屏風
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			mid-1600s
creation date earliest:		1640
creation date latest:		1660
current location:		
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Folding screen
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Kitagawa Sōsetsu (Japanese, active 1639-50)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 153.7 x 329.2 cm (60 1/2 x 129 5/8 in.); Including mounting: 170.2 x 348.4 cm (67 x 137 3/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	two seals, lower right: "I-nen; Sosetsu"
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235
	opening date:   2020-10-16T04:00:00
	<i>Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 23, 2020-January 17, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 10-July 16, 2003).

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PROVENANCE

	(N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1968
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1968-
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wall description: 
Kitagawa Sōsetsu painted for the Maeda family, powerful rulers of what is present-day Ishikawa Prefecture on the central northern coast of Honshū, Japan’s main island. Screens served as room dividers and backdrops in Maeda grand residences. This composition is considered one of the artist’s masterpieces. Kitagawa Sōsetsu is thought to have been a student of Tawaraya Sōsetsu, who was in turn the student of Tawaraya Sōtatsu, the Kyoto-based master painter regarded as the creator of the style that came to be known as Rinpa. By selecting a painter of this lineage, the Maeda family consciously connected their aesthetics to those of the imperial capital as a means of proclaiming their elevated status.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 284
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n308

	Stern, Harold P. <em>Birds, Beasts, Blossoms, and Bugs: The Nature of Japan</em>. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1976.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 25, pp. 62-64
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 384
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n404

	Cuningham, Michael R.<em> Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 32-33
	url:		

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IMAGES

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full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.193.1/1968.193.1_full.tif