id: 152424 accession number: 1985.252 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.252 updated: 2025-02-09 04:19:37.883000 Spring Dancers (Manzai), early to mid-1700s. Miyagawa Chōshun (Japanese, 1683–1753). Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; painting only: 84.1 x 31.4 cm (33 1/8 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.252 title: Spring Dancers (Manzai) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early to mid-1700s creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1753 current location: creditline: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Miyagawa Chōshun (Japanese, 1683–1753) - artist --- measurements: Painting only: 84.1 x 31.4 cm (33 1/8 x 12 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's signature and gourd-shaped seal lower right corner. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection opening date: 1988-09-14T04:00:00 A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Takashi Yanagi, Kyoto, Japan, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith) date: footnotes: citations: The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1985 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1985– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS “Checklist of the Kelvin Smith Bequest.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 7 (September 1988): 292–295. page number: Mentioned: p. 294 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160040 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.252/1985.252_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.252/1985.252_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.252/1985.252_full.tif