id:			149661
accession number:	1979.53
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.53
updated:		2022-10-29 15:23:18.537000

Orchid Pavilion Gathering, 1777. Soga Shōhaku (Japanese, 1730–1781). Hanging scroll; ink on silk; painting: 122.7 x 55.7 cm (48 5/16 x 21 15/16 in.); mounted: 197.4 x 58.8 cm (77 11/16 x 23 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1979.53

title:				Orchid Pavilion Gathering
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			1777
creation date earliest:		1777
creation date latest:		1777
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	hanging scroll; ink on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Soga Shōhaku (Japanese, 1730–1781)  - artist

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measurements: Painting: 122.7 x 55.7 cm (48 5/16 x 21 15/16 in.); Mounted: 197.4 x 58.8 cm (77 11/16 x 23 1/8 in.)
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support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	Inscribed upper right: Sixth year of An'ei (1777) mid-winter, Soga Shohaku
Seal: Dasokken Shohaku
Seal: Unread
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1979
	opening date:   1980-02-20T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1979</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 20-March 9, 1980).

	title:		Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting
	opening date:   1985-10-01T04:00:00
	<i>Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1985-February 24, 1986).

	title:		Soga Shohaku (1730-81)
	opening date:   2005-04-12T00:00:00
	<i>Soga Shohaku (1730-81)</i>. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (organizer) (April 12-May 15, 2005).

	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

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PROVENANCE

	(Toyobi, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1979
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	citations: 	


	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1979–
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


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fun fact: 
The Buddhist temple Bairinji in Kurume City, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, own compositions by the same artist on the same theme.

digital description: 
This painting depicts a famous gathering that took place in China in AD 353 to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, also known as the Double Third Festival, as it takes place on the third day of the third lunar month. The host invited everyone to the Orchid Pavilion to compose poetry and drink wine. Guests floated wine cups down a nearby creek, and where they landed, people had to drink the wine and compose a poem.

wall description: 

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 67, no. 3 (1980): 58–99.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 120, p. 93; Mentioned: cat. no. 120, p. 98
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667

	Cunningham, Michael. “Painting the Wind: A Mid-Fifteenth Century ‘Suibokuga.’” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 7 (November 1985): 363–377.
	page number: 	
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159918

	"Thoughts on a Group of Deity Sculptures at the Oiso Takaku Shrine." <em>Kokka</em> 國華 1312 (2005).
	page number: 	Reproduced: pl. 4
	url:		

	<em>Soga Shōhaku: burai to iu yuetsu : tokubetsu tenrankai </em>[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: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat no. 20, p. 112
	url:		

	<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. 36, p. 118
	url:		

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IMAGES

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