id: 148810 accession number: 1976.59 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.59 updated: 2022-06-02 09:00:59.810000 Haboku (Flung-ink) Landscape, c. 1510. Shūgetsu Tōkan (Japanese, 1440?-1529). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; image: 59.5 x 26.9 cm (23 7/16 x 10 9/16 in.); overall: 151.1 x 40.6 cm (59 1/2 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1976.59 title: Haboku (Flung-ink) Landscape title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1510 creation date earliest: 1505 creation date latest: 1510 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Muromachi period (1392-1573) technique: hanging scroll; ink on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Shūgetsu Tōkan (Japanese, 1440?-1529) - artist active late 15th-early 16th century --- measurements: Image: 59.5 x 26.9 cm (23 7/16 x 10 9/16 in.); Overall: 151.1 x 40.6 cm (59 1/2 x 16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed middle right edge: "Shugetsu hitsu." One seal which reads "Nihon satsuyo shakushi Tokan." translation: remark: --- 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: 茶の美術 : 特別展 (Art of the Tea Ceremony) opening date: 1980-10-07T04:00:00 茶の美術 : 特別展 (Art of the Tea Ceremony). Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (October 7-November 24, 1980). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). 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: Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen opening date: 1987-12-08T05:00:00 Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1987-January 10, 1988). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00 Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). title: Sesshu, Master of Ink and Brush: 500th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 2002-03-12T00:00:00 Sesshu, Master of Ink and Brush: 500th Anniversary Exhibition. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (March 12-April 7, 2002). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Art of the Tea Ceremony. Tokyo National Museum (October 7-November 24, 1980). * One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (March 25-May 17, 1981). * Main Asian Rotation (G121). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 2003-March 12, 2004). --- PROVENANCE Hirayama date: footnotes: citations: Tanaka Gohei date: footnotes: citations: (Gatodo Gallery Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1976 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1976- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This vague but energetically rendered landscape highlights the brush: the messenger for a moment’s emotional or spiritual state. The painting represents one of many subjects and styles Shugetsu studied and absorbed from the great practitioners of Ming-dynasty China in the late 1400s and early 1500s. The technique of "flung ink," or haboku, disguises purposeful composition as an almost random, distracted series of brushstrokes. Close inspection reveals tonalities and strokes brushed onto a soft, absorbent paper in a range from heavy and wet to crisp ink charges. Not surprisingly, amateur and professional Zen monk-painters favored this "impressionistic" style as an exercise in seeing meaningful detail slowly emerge from what at first seems unclear. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1976." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 2 (1977): 39-78. page number: no. 142 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152676 Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art : Catalogue. [New York]: Japan Society, 1981. page number: no. 35 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Tōyō kaiga no seika: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara : tokubetsuten. 1998. page number: p.107, cat. no. 71 url: Sesshū. Sesshū: botsugo 500-nen tokubetsuten = Sesshu, master of ink and brush : 500th anniversary exhibition. [Tokyo]: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 2002. page number: exh. cat. 125, p. 185. url: 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. 376 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n396 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.59/1976.59_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.59/1976.59_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.59/1976.59_full.tif