id: 148538 accession number: 1976.11 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.11 updated: 2022-07-30 09:00:30.042000 The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup, later 1700s. Soga Shōhaku (Japanese, 1730-1781). Pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and cut-gold foil on paper; overall: 120 x 352.2 cm (47 1/4 x 138 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1976.11 title: The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: later 1700s creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1781 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and cut-gold foil on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Soga Shōhaku (Japanese, 1730-1781) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 120 x 352.2 cm (47 1/4 x 138 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review, 1976 opening date: 1977-02-01T05:00:00 Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977). 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: 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: 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 --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Responding to the desires of the middle class (chonin), some late Edo period Japanese painters moved away from the seriousness associated with the Chinese theme of reclusion, focusing instead on the motif’s humorous aspects. The theme Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup is based on a poem by the renowned 8th-century Chinese poet Du Fu about his eight colleagues. These scholars eagerly sought release from their official governmental duties and then supposedly fled the capital for the countryside. There, they engaged in wildly eccentric behavior and adventurous creative work, all fueled by copious amounts of wine. Shohaku’s version of events exaggerates the scholars’ pleasure, as seen in their comical facial expressions. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 386 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n406 Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: pp. 50–51 url: Soga Shōhaku: burai to iu yuetsu : tokubetsu tenrankai [曾我蕭白 : 無頼という愉悦: 特別展覧会 = Shōhaku show]. [Kyoto]: Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2005. page number: Reproduced: p. 248, cat no. 74 url: Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 27a and 27b url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.11/1976.11_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.11/1976.11_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.11/1976.11_full.tif