id:			149957
accession number:	1980.188
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.188
updated:		2023-05-23 11:06:51.310000

Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers, 1788. Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1841). Four album leaves remounted as hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper; overall: 129 x 67 cm (50 13/16 x 26 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1980.188

title:				Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers
title in original language:	瀟湘八景の内
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creation date:			1788
creation date earliest:		1788
creation date latest:		1788
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	four album leaves remounted as hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1841)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 129 x 67 cm (50 13/16 x 26 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1980
	opening date:   1981-06-24T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1980</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

	title:		The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art
	opening date:   2011-03-27T00:00:00
	<i>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Katsuhiro Kobayashi, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1980
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1980-
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wall description:
By the early age of 25, Tani Bunchō had already mastered the literati painting style of the Ming dynasty Wu school. These 1788 paintings of four of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers show a style that differs from not only the Southern Song-inspired mode of Muromachi ink painting but also that of the Kano school. Inscriptions by the Confucian scholar Ichigawa Kansai (1749–1820) on Returning Sails from a Distant Shore, and the inscriptions by other elites on the other three scrolls, suggest that these Wu school-style paintings were possibly ordered by newly prominent Edo period Confucian scholars. Bunchō’s original set of eight paintings seems to have been initially made as album leaves that were later remounted as hanging scrolls.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 17
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IMAGES

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