id: 151342 accession number: 1983.19 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.19 updated: 2020-11-04 21:23:40.746000 Famous Views of Ōmi, 1660s-90s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper; overall: 170 x 336 cm (66 15/16 x 132 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1983.19 title: Famous Views of Ōmi title in original language: 近江名所図屏風 series: series in original language: creation date: 1660s-90s creation date earliest: 1660 creation date latest: 1699 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 170 x 336 cm (66 15/16 x 132 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1983 opening date: 1984-02-22T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984). 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: Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen opening date: 1987-12-08T05:00:00 Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1987-January 10, 1988). title: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). * Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). --- PROVENANCE Nesè Collection, Switzerland date: footnotes: citations: (Marion Hammer, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1983 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1983- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: Ōmi is an area around Lake Biwa near Kyoto. The Shinto shrine Hiyoshi Taisha and the Buddhist temple Ishiyamadera are in the upper right and upper left of the composition, respectively. At center is the pilgrimage route, and people in the town before the temple gates. Harvested rice fields at right and cherry blossom trees in flower at left show seasonal change from winter to spring. wall description: These byōbu vividly portray the shores of Lake Biwa, located near Kyoto, and take a bird's-eye view of verdant landscapes rendered with richly toned hues of thick mineral pigments. The foliage detail and emphasis on its size, shape, and placement offer a visual reading of the composition from right to left. Eschewing Western perspective the images proceed from the impressive Shinto shrine set deep in one of the mountain villages, along the shoreline, and past rice fields, ending in the left screen whose entire six panels present the Ishiyama-dera temple compound. The blossoming cherry trees indicate that it’s late March-early April, and billowing gold-foil clouds help propel the eye toward the compound’s elevations, enclosures, and spaces, particularly the huge well-known, blue-green boulders said to have come from China. The temple's fame, however, is as the friendly domicile for Murasaki Shikibu, the eleventh-century author of The Tale of Genji. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. Tōyō kaiga no seika : tokubetsuten : Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art 東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから]. Nara, Japan: Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Heisei 10 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 134-135, cat. no. 88 url: Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: pp. 30-31 url: Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [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: Reproduced: cat. no. 35, p. 114-115 url: McKelway, Matthew P. "Views of Lake Biwa." In Japanese Art: Critical and Primary Sources. Morgan Pitelka, ed., 57-63. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. page number: Mentioned: pp. 57-63 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.19/1983.19_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.19/1983.19_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.19/1983.19_full.tif