id:			148719
accession number:	1976.164
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.164
updated:		2025-06-26 11:08:08.304000

The Emperor's Attendance at the Horse Race: Episode from the Tale of Eiga (Eiga Monogatari), c. 1200. Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333). Handscroll; ink and color on paper; image: 32.4 x 36.7 cm (12 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.); overall: 35.5 x 339.5 cm (14 x 133 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Herbert F. Leisy in memory of Helen Leisy, 1976.164

title:				The Emperor's Attendance at the Horse Race: Episode from the Tale of Eiga (Eiga Monogatari)
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creation date:			c. 1200
creation date earliest:		1190
creation date latest:		1210
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creditline:			Gift of Herbert F. Leisy in memory of Helen Leisy
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culture:	Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333)
technique:	handscroll; ink and color on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Handscroll
type:		Painting
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measurements: Image: 32.4 x 36.7 cm (12 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.); Overall: 35.5 x 339.5 cm (14 x 133 11/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review, 1976
	opening date:   1977-02-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review, 1976</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).

	title:		Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1998-02-21T00:00:00
	<i>Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).

	title:		Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2014-01-15T00:00:00
	<i>Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art , Cleveland, OH (March 4–July 22, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-03-04T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Mr. Herbert F. [1900–1977] and Mrs. Helen Stamp Leisy [1906–1975], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1976
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1976–
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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. “Horse Racing at Kamo Shrine.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 64, no. 8 (October 1977): 255–275.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 259–260, figs. 5–6
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159543

	<em>Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara </em>[東洋絵画の精華: 特别展: クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 93, cat. no. 61
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	<em>Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> [クリーブランド美術館展: 名画でたどる日本の美= Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 9, p. 44
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IMAGES

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