id: 145427
accession number: 1970.77
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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
Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).
title: Buson and His Followers
opening date: 1974-01-09T04:00:00
Buson and His Followers. 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
Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan. 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
Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 2-July 9, 2018).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Later Japanese Art Gallery Rotation (Gallery 113). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 20-May 6, 2003).
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PROVENANCE
Shimomura Shotaro, Kyoto.
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The man keeps his feet dry by crossing over the bridge while the water buffalo pulls the cart through the stream.
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More celebrated in his lifetime as a poet than as a painter, Yosa Buson is a figure central to Japanese nanga. Literally “southern art,” nanga has its roots in Chinese traditions of literati painting, art produced by scholars who painted for their own sake instead of on commission. Buson drew inspiration from multiple styles of Chinese painting, not just those of literati, and ended up more of a professional painter by the time he had become known as an artist. Like other major nanga figures, he operated outside the main government systems of patronage. Japan’s ruler, the shogun, and regional rulers known as daimyō had official painters who enjoyed special social status. Painters like Buson also found patrons among the merchant class, who often enjoyed greater wealth than that of the upper-class daimyō.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1970.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 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. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 385
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n405
Koyama-Richard, Brigitte. Animaux Dans La Peinture Japonaise. Lyon: Nouvelles éditions Scala, 2020.
page number: Reproduced: P. 170
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