id:			151342
accession number:	1983.19
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.19
updated:		2025-05-24 12:02:27.277000

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
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creation date:			1660s–90s
creation date earliest:		1660
creation date latest:		1699
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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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
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measurements: Overall: 170 x 336 cm (66 15/16 x 132 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1983
	opening date:   1984-02-22T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1983</i>. 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
	<i>Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen</i>. 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
	<i>Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen</i>. 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
	<i>Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).

	title:		Japanese art rotation
	opening date:   2019-08-19T04:00:00
	<i>Japanese art rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 19, 2019-January 5, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).', 'opening_date': '1998-02-21T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Tokyo National Museum (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).', 'opening_date': '2014-01-15T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Nesè Collection, Switzerland
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	(Marion Hammer, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1983
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1983–
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CITATIONS

	Cunningham, Michael R. “Byōbu: The Art of the Japanese Screen.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 7 (September 1984): 223–232.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 224, fig. 3, pl. i; Reproduced: pp. 224, 228
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159871

	<em>Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara </em>[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= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 134–135, cat. no. 88
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	Cunningham, Michael R. <em>Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 30–31
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	<em>Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> [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, pp. 114–115
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	McKelway, Matthew P. "Views of Lake Biwa." In <em>Japanese Art: Critical and Primary Sources. </em>Morgan Pitelka, ed., 57-63. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 57–63
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