id: 149766
accession number: 1979.78.2
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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 1979.78.2
title: Four Elders of Mt. Shang
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creation date: 1600s
creation date earliest: 1625
creation date latest: 1674
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creditline: Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge and Victor and Takako Hauge
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culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique: pair of six-fold screens; ink on paper
department: Japanese Art
collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Kano Tan’yū (Japanese, 1602-1674) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 161 x 339 cm (63 3/8 x 133 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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: The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art
opening date: 2011-03-27T00:00:00
The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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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. The other screen, 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.
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RELATED WORKS
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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; 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
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Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 26b
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