id: 151971 accession number: 1984.43 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.43 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:24.489000 Susuki Grass, c. 1525. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper; overall: 150.3 x 348.8 cm (59 3/16 x 137 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1984.43 title: Susuki Grass title in original language: 芒野図屏風 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1525 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1550 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573) technique: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 150.3 x 348.8 cm (59 3/16 x 137 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review for 1984 opening date: 1985-04-03T05:00:00 Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985). 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: Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615) opening date: 1988-10-04T04:00:00 Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4-December 11, 1988). title: Rimpa Painting opening date: 1989-09-19T04:00:00 Rimpa Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989). title: The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th Century Art in Japan opening date: 1991-10-19T04:00:00 The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th Century Art in Japan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19-December 1, 1991). title: Monet & Japan opening date: 2001-03-10T00:00:00 Monet & Japan. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia (organizer) (March 10-June 11, 2001). 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: Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan opening date: 2003-10-21T00:00:00 Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 21, 2003-January 11, 2004). title: Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-01-15T00:00:00 Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014). title: Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation opening date: 2019-01-07T05:00:00 Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 7-July 8, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Eastern Fine Arts, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1984 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1984– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The botanical name for susuki grass is miscanthus. digital description: wall description: Susuki grass has a seasonal association with autumn in the Japanese visual and literary tradition. It is one of the “Seven Flowers of Autumn,” along with bush clover, arrowroot, pink, patrinia, mistflower, and bellflower. This composition immerses the beholder in a field of grasses and golden bands of mist. The design may have served as a backdrop for poems brushed in calligraphy on decorated papers and attached to the surface of the screens. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cunningham, Michael R. The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th-Century Art in Japan. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1991. page number: Reproduced: pp. 38-39 url: Bromfield, David. Monet & Japan. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2001. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 122, pp. 166–167 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. 10-11 url: Cunningham, Michael R. "Letter to the Editor." Impressions 34 (2013): 261–264. page number: Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 263 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. 27, p. 82-83 url: Sakomura, Tomoko. Poetry As Image: The Visual Culture of Waka in Sixteenth-Century Japan. Leiden: Brill, 2016. page number: Reproduced: pp. 22-23, fig.12 url: Longhi, Leighton R. Leighton R. Longhi: Forty-Five Years in Asian Art. [New York, N.Y.]: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019. page number: Reproduced: pp. 96–97, fig. 74 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.43/1984.43_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.43/1984.43_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.43/1984.43_full.tif