id:			156856
accession number:	1992.71
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.71
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Ghost and Oil Lamp, 1810. Tani Bun'ichi (Japanese, 1787-1818). Hanging scroll, ink, color, and gold on silk; painting only: 109.2 x 48.9 cm (43 x 19 1/4 in.); including mounting: 187.3 x 65.4 cm (73 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith Fund 1992.71

title:				Ghost and Oil Lamp
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creation date:			1810
creation date earliest:		1810
creation date latest:		1810
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creditline:			Kelvin Smith Fund
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	hanging scroll, ink, color, and gold on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Tani Bun'ichi (Japanese, 1787-1818)  - artist

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measurements: Painting only: 109.2 x 48.9 cm (43 x 19 1/4 in.); Including mounting: 187.3 x 65.4 cm (73 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	artist's inscription on stem of oil lamp
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 21, 2014-January 13, 2015).

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PROVENANCE

	(Andreas Leisinger, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1992
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1992-
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wall description: 
Tani Bun’ichi was the adopted son of Tani Buncho (1763-1840), a master painter and connoisseur. A Bun’ichi painting remarkably similar to this one that depicts a ghost by a lacquer lamp stand, is in the collection the Tokyo temple Zensho-an. That painting once belonged to Sanyutei Encho (1839-1900), a famed raconteur of ghost stories who donated his collection of ghost paintings to the temple. An inscription in gold on the lamp stand in this painting, identical in content to that on the Zensho-an painting, indicates that it was executed in the 12th month of 1810. Bun’ichi explains that he did not like painting ghosts, but tried it out after listening to a person by the name of Ono.
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