id:			152464
accession number:	1985.29
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.29
updated:		2025-05-20 11:16:47.514000

Ablution Scene (Misogi), late 1700s. Tawaraya Sōri (Japanese, active late 1700s). Hanging scroll, ink, color and gold leaf on paper; image: 23.4 x 109.4 cm (9 3/16 x 43 1/16 in.); overall: 110 x 122.8 cm (43 5/16 x 48 3/8 in.); with knobs: 110 x 128.2 cm (43 5/16 x 50 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1985.29

title:				Ablution Scene (Misogi)
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creation date:			late 1700s
creation date earliest:		1770
creation date latest:		1799
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
technique:	hanging scroll, ink, color and gold leaf on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Tawaraya Sōri (Japanese, active late 1700s)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 23.4 x 109.4 cm (9 3/16 x 43 1/16 in.); Overall: 110 x 122.8 cm (43 5/16 x 48 3/8 in.); with knobs: 110 x 128.2 cm (43 5/16 x 50 1/2 in.)
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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).

	title:		Rimpa Painting
	opening date:   1989-09-19T04:00:00
	<i>Rimpa Painting</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989).

	title:		Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1998-02-21T00:00:00
	<i>Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).

	title:		Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2014-01-15T00:00:00
	<i>Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Yoshiyuki Hosomi, Osaka, 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 (1986): 26–71.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 190, pp. 47 and 70
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159930

	<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: p. 128, cat. no. 84
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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: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 39, pp. 120–121
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