id:			149661
accession number:	1979.53
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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
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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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inscriptions:

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

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1979
	opening date:   1980-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1979</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-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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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1979–
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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
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	<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
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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. 36, p. 118
	url:		

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