id:			146712
accession number:	1972.16
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.16
updated:		2023-05-23 11:06:51.146000

Watching a Waterfall, 1790. Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1841). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; image: 112.5 x 51.1 cm (44 5/16 x 20 1/8 in.); overall: 214 x 54.5 cm (84 1/4 x 21 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1972.16

title:				Watching a Waterfall
title in original language:	滝見図
series:				
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creation date:			1790
creation date earliest:		1790
creation date latest:		1790
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1841)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 112.5 x 51.1 cm (44 5/16 x 20 1/8 in.); Overall: 214 x 54.5 cm (84 1/4 x 21 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1972
	opening date:   1973-02-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1972</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

	title:		The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art
	opening date:   2011-03-27T00:00:00
	<i>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).

	title:		Japanese art rotation
	opening date:   2019-08-19T04:00:00
	<i>Japanese art rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 19, 2019-January 5, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Shogoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, ?-1972, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1972
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1972-present
	date: 1972-
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fun fact:


digital description:
Artist Tani Bunchō painted this lush blue-green image in a mountain pavilion during wintertime. He inscribed it with two lines of a poem reading: “the stone cliff of layered rocks is extremely high. Waterfalls tumbling from the skies reverberate in the clouds.” The scholarly figure and attendant carrying his zither set the location among the majestically soaring mountains of China.

wall description:
Artist Tani Bunchō painted this image in a mountain pavilion during winter. He inscribed it with two lines of a poem reading: “the stone cliff of layered rocks is extremely high. Waterfalls tumbling from the skies reverberate in the clouds.” The scholarly figure and attendant carrying his zither are set amid majestically soaring mountains in China, a popular subject for Japanese Nanga artists. <em>Nanga</em> means “southern painting” and refers to images made in Japan emulating Chinese scholars who painted as amateurs for their colleagues.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 20
	url:		

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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.16/1972.16_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.16/1972.16_full.tif