id: 148839 accession number: 1976.8 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.8 updated: 2024-08-08 15:16:00.486000 Portrait of Kō Sūkoku, possibly 1817. Watanabe Kazan (Japanese, 1793–1841), Tani Buncho (Japanese, 1763–1840). Fan, wood with ink, color, gold, and silver on paper; overall: 17.8 x 45.7 cm (7 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee Fund 1976.8 title: Portrait of Kō Sūkoku title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: possibly 1817 creation date earliest: 1817 creation date latest: 1817 current location: creditline: James Parmelee Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) technique: Fan, wood with ink, color, gold, and silver on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Fan painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Watanabe Kazan (Japanese, 1793–1841) - painter * Tani Buncho (Japanese, 1763–1840) - calligrapher --- measurements: Overall: 17.8 x 45.7 cm (7 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: The grave is readied / and the sake warmed. / Oh, the cold! 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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977). title: Reflections of Reality in Japanese Art opening date: 1983-03-16T04:00:00 Reflections of Reality in Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 16-May 1, 1983). title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: Fans: East and West opening date: 1992-12-15T05:00:00 Fans: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1992-March 7, 1993). title: Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation opening date: 2018-01-02T05:00:00 Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 2-July 9, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Katsuhiro Kobayashi, 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: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “Varieties of Portraiture in Chinese and Japanese Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 4 (April 1977): 118–136. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 131, fig. 16 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159523 Ulak, James T. “Kazan’s Portrait of a Giant: Ozorabuzaemon.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 3 (March 1983): 99–111. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 100–101, fig. 3 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159807 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.8/1976.8_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.8/1976.8_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.8/1976.8_full.tif