id:			153672
accession number:	1987.194
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.194
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:32.602000

An Illustrated Marriage of Apparitions, mid-1800s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Handscroll; ink and color on paper; overall: 29.2 cm (11 1/2 in.); painting only: 25.9 x 1310.6 cm (10 3/16 x 516 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1987.194

title:				An Illustrated Marriage of Apparitions
title in original language:	化物婚礼絵巻
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creation date:			mid-1800s
creation date earliest:		1840
creation date latest:		1860
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creditline:			John L. Severance 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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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 29.2 cm (11 1/2 in.); Painting only: 25.9 x 1310.6 cm (10 3/16 x 516 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1987
	opening date:   1988-02-24T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1987</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 21, 2014-November 16, 2015).

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PROVENANCE

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wall description:
The matchmaking, engagement, wedding, and birth of the first child of two apparitions, or <em>bakemono</em>, literally "things that change," are illustrated in this whimsical, humorous handscroll. Japanese folklore abounds with such strange creatures, most famously represented in handscrolls featuring a procession of 100 supernatural monsters. Aside from a textual preface and cartouches indicating the content of the scenes, the tale is told visually. The artist and whereabouts of the original handscroll are unknown, but a number of other 19th-century copies by amateur painters exist in Japanese collections, attesting to its broad appeal.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1987.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 75, no. 2 (February 1988): 30–71.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 70, no. 191; Reproduced: p. 68, no. 191
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160017

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