id:			151535
accession number:	1983.80
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.80
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:22.698000

The Illustrated Tale of Oishi Hyōroku, 1700s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Handscroll; ink and color on paper; overall: 25.7 x 977.4 cm (10 1/8 x 384 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1983.80

title:				The Illustrated Tale of Oishi Hyōroku
title in original language:	大石兵六物語絵巻
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creation date:			1700s
creation date earliest:		1700
creation date latest:		1799
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creditline:			Edward L. Whittemore Fund
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	handscroll; ink and color on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Handscroll
type:		Painting
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measurements: Overall: 25.7 x 977.4 cm (10 1/8 x 384 13/16 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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1984: "Year in Review 1983," CMA Bulletin 71 (February 1984), p. 77, no. 240.<br>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120); July 22 - October 26, 2003.

* Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236); July 21, 2014 - January 13, 2015.

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wall description:
This incomplete handscroll illustrates part of the story of Oishi Hyoroku, a young man tasked with battling fox apparitions who were creating problems in his town. In other extant versions of the scroll, the story is set in the fall of 1624 in Kagoshima in southern Japan. Throughout the story, Hyoroku is tricked and terrified by the foxes that shift their shapes into a variety of monstrous phantoms. After repeated humiliations, he eventually captures two of the foxes. In this version, colloquial texts that function like text blurbs in comics appear throughout the scroll, but the main text is missing.
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