id: 149766 accession number: 1979.78.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.78.2 updated: 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 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: 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). --- 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. 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. --- 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; 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. 26b url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.78.2/1979.78.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.78.2/1979.78.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.78.2/1979.78.2_full.tif