id: 148858 accession number: 1976.95.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.95.1 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:07.027000 Horse Race at the Kamo Shrine, early to mid-1600s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on gilded paper; image: 161 x 362 cm (63 3/8 x 142 1/2 in.); overall: 176.5 x 377.3 cm (69 1/2 x 148 9/16 in.); closed: 176.5 x 64 x 12.5 cm (69 1/2 x 25 3/16 x 4 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1976.95.1 title: Horse Race at the Kamo Shrine title in original language: 賀茂神社競馬図屏風 series: series in original language: creation date: early to mid-1600s creation date earliest: 1615 creation date latest: 1650 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on gilded paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Image: 161 x 362 cm (63 3/8 x 142 1/2 in.); Overall: 176.5 x 377.3 cm (69 1/2 x 148 9/16 in.); Closed: 176.5 x 64 x 12.5 cm (69 1/2 x 25 3/16 x 4 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2001-07-15T00:00:00 Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). title: Biombo: Japan's Gift of Folding Screens to the West opening date: 2007-09-01T00:00:00 Biombo: Japan's Gift of Folding Screens to the West. Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (September 1-October 21, 2007); Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (October 30-December 16, 2007). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art; Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236); April 19, 2013 - December 24, 2013 * The Cleveland Museum of Art; Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121); March 10, 2003 - July 16, 2003. --- PROVENANCE (Kochukyo Co., Inc., 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: Kamo Shrine in Kyoto, seen in the upper half of the left screen, has held an annual horse race on May 5th since the ninth century. Serving as a snapshot of the festivities, this pair of screens captures nearly 600 people watching the race, beginning at the bottom part of the right screen and continuing to the left. The race is a great spectacle where aristocratic riders cling to their fast and unwieldy mounts. While many of those in attendance seem in rapt attention to the main event, other vignettes depict people engaged in an array of activities. This pair of screens was likely originally part of a group of linked murals. --- 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 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: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 80–81, no. 46 url: Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [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: pp. 132–133, cat. no. 87 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned: p. 212; Reproduced: pp. 214–215 url: Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 28-29 url: Sakakibara, Satoru. Biombo: Japan heritage as legend of gold. [Japan?]: Nikkei, 2007. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 242–243, fig. 98 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 03, May/June 2013 page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 11 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2013-03/page/10 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.95.1/1976.95.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.95.1/1976.95.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.95.1/1976.95.1_full.tif