id: 149764 accession number: 1979.78 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.78 updated: 2022-03-01 10:00:34.674000 Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; Four Elders of Mt. Shang, 1600s. Kano Tan’yū (Japanese, 1602-1674). Pair of six-fold screens; ink on paper; overall: 161 x 339 cm (63 3/8 x 133 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge and Victor and Takako Hauge 1979.78 title: Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; Four Elders of Mt. Shang title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1600s creation date earliest: 1625 creation date latest: 1674 current location: creditline: Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge and Victor and Takako Hauge copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: pair of six-fold screens; ink on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kano Tan’yū (Japanese, 1602-1674) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 161 x 339 cm (63 3/8 x 133 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1979 opening date: 1980-02-20T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 20-March 9, 1980). title: Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen opening date: 1984-08-01T04:00:00 Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The Kano school was a group of professional artists patronized by the shogun from the late Muromachi period to the Edo period. The group adopted themes of reclusiveness to convey the importance of loyalty to the shogunate. A leader of the Edo Kano school, Kano Tanyu paired Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Four Elders of Mt. Shang to reference a painting of the same theme attributed to Kano Motonobu. Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove refers to the elites who escaped the social chaos of China’s Wei-Jin period (AD 200s–400s); they fled to a secluded bamboo grove where they could express themselves freely, enjoying pure conversation, music, and wine. Four Elders of Mt. Shang depicts the scholars who left the turbulence of the late Qin dynasty to pursue their scholarly interests in seclusion on Mt. Shang in Shanxi province. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 124, p. 90-91; Mentioned: p. 99 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667 Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: pp. 77, Cat. no. 40 url: Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 26a and 26b url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.78/1979.78_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.78/1979.78_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.78/1979.78_full.tif