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: series in original language: creation date: 1790 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1790 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1841) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1972 opening date: 1973-02-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1972. 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 The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011). title: Japanese art rotation opening date: 2019-08-19T04:00:00 Japanese art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 19, 2019-January 5, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Shogoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, ?-1972, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1972 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1972-present date: 1972- footnotes: citations: --- 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. Nanga means “southern painting” and refers to images made in Japan emulating Chinese scholars who painted as amateurs for their colleagues. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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. 20 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.16/1972.16_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.16/1972.16_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.16/1972.16_full.tif