id: 143879 accession number: 1968.267 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.267 updated: 2022-04-21 09:00:33.569000 Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, 1700s. Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683-1755). Six-panel folding screen, ink on paper; image: 150 x 356 cm (59 1/16 x 140 3/16 in.); overall: 170 x 376 cm (66 15/16 x 148 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of N. V. Hammer 1968.267 title: Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1700s creation date earliest: 1710 creation date latest: 1755 current location: creditline: Gift of N. V. Hammer copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: Six-panel folding screen, ink on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683-1755) - artist --- measurements: Image: 150 x 356 cm (59 1/16 x 140 3/16 in.); Overall: 170 x 376 cm (66 15/16 x 148 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1968 opening date: 1969-01-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969). title: Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections opening date: 1977-03-23T04:00:00 Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977). title: Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen opening date: 1984-08-01T04:00:00 Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984). 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: Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2001-07-15T00:00:00 Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). title: The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art opening date: 2011-03-27T00:00:00 The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE R. Fukui, Tokyo, Japan date: footnotes: citations: Mayuyama and Co., Tokyo, Japan date: footnotes: citations: N. V. Hammer, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1968 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1968- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Watanabe Shiko, an Edo period painter who combined Kano school style with Rimpa style, re-created the Xiao and the Xiang rivers on a pair of eight-panel screens. For this composition, he followed the Kano school’s sense of space, adapted from miniature copying paintings (shukuzu) by the Japanese artist Kano Tanyu. Watanabe revised the typical representations of the Xiao and the Xiang rivers by rendering the theme Wild Geese Descending to Sandbar on the right screen and Evening Bell from Mist-Shrouded Temple on the left screen. He depicted simple motifs—moon, boat, geese, and temple—to suggest the other scenes while also creating airy space. --- RELATED WORKS id: 136419 Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, 1700s. Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683-1755). Six-panel folding screen, ink on paper; image: 150 x 356 cm (59 1/16 x 140 3/16 in.); overall: 170 x 376 cm (66 15/16 x 148 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee 1960.284 relationship: --- CITATIONS Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 16 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Michael R. Cunningham. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: pp. 42-43 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.267/1968.267_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.267/1968.267_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.267/1968.267_full.tif