id:			145427
accession number:	1970.77
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.77
updated:		2025-06-10 11:10:06.495000

Water Buffalo Returning Home, 1781. Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716–1783). Hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk; overall: 203.2 x 59.2 cm (80 x 23 5/16 in.); painting only: 130.8 x 46.2 cm (51 1/2 x 18 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1970.77

title:				Water Buffalo Returning Home
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creation date:			1781
creation date earliest:		1781
creation date latest:		1781
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
technique:	Hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716–1783)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 203.2 x 59.2 cm (80 x 23 5/16 in.); Painting only: 130.8 x 46.2 cm (51 1/2 x 18 3/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1970
	opening date:   1971-02-10T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1970</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).

	title:		Buson and His Followers
	opening date:   1974-01-09T04:00:00
	<i>Buson and His Followers</i>. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (January 9-February 17, 1974); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (March 28-May 12, 1974); Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (October 3-December 1, 1974).

	title:		Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan
	opening date:   1993-11-16T05:00:00
	<i>Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1993-March 6, 1994).

	title:		Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation
	opening date:   2018-01-02T05:00:00
	<i>Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 2-July 9, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Later Japanese Art Gallery Rotation (Gallery 113)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 20-May 6, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-02-20T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Shimomura Shotaro, Kyoto.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1970.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 58, no. 2, 1971, pp. 22–71.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 130, p. 70; Reproduced: p. 61
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152361

	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. 385
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n405

	Koyama-Richard, Brigitte. <em>Animaux Dans La Peinture Japonaise</em>. Lyon: Nouvelles éditions Scala, 2020.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 170
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