id:			152253
accession number:	1985.134.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.134.1
updated:		2025-05-20 11:16:47.458000

Dragon, early to mid-1600s. Attributed to Soga Nichokuan (Japanese). Six-panel folding screen; ink, slight color, gold, and silver on paper; image: 158.1 x 304.8 cm (62 1/4 x 120 in.); including mounting: 173.4 x 377.2 cm (68 1/4 x 148 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1985.134.1

title:				Dragon
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			early to mid-1600s
creation date earliest:		1600
creation date latest:		1660
current location:		
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
technique:	six-panel folding screen; ink, slight color, gold, and silver on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Folding screen
type:		Painting
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Soga Nichokuan (Japanese)  - artist
active mid 17th century
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measurements: Image: 158.1 x 304.8 cm (62 1/4 x 120 in.); Including mounting: 173.4 x 377.2 cm (68 1/4 x 148 1/2 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed: Soga Chokuan II (Soga Chokuan ni). 
Sealed: Hoin (right), Soga Chokuan Hoin
(three seals at left) Edo period (1615-1868)
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1985
	opening date:   1986-02-12T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1985</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986).

	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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 13-November 16, 2015).', 'opening_date': '2015-01-13T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Klaus F. Naumann East Asian Art, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1985
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1985–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26–71.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 46; Mentioned: p. 70, no. 188
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159930

	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. 77, cat. no. 39
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	Paget, Rhiannon. <em>Divine Felines: The Cat in Japanese Art</em>. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2023.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 170; Reproduced: pp. 167–168, 170–171
	url:		

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IMAGES

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