id: 157681 accession number: 1995.18 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.18 updated: 2023-03-15 15:46:14.178000 Mt. Fuji through Pines, late 1700s-early 1800s. Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; painting only: 90 x 30.8 cm (35 7/16 x 12 1/8 in.); including mounting: 183.5 x 49.5 cm (72 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith Fund 1995.18 title: Mt. Fuji through Pines title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1700s-early 1800s creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1820 current location: creditline: Kelvin Smith Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: hanging scroll, ink and color on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820) - artist --- measurements: Painting only: 90 x 30.8 cm (35 7/16 x 12 1/8 in.); Including mounting: 183.5 x 49.5 cm (72 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed: painted by Shunman and others (Shunman narabi utsu [su]) Sealed: Shunman translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236); January 13, 2015 - --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Kubo Shunman dashed off this loose image of Mt. Fuji viewed in the distance from behind pine trees as a performance painting, or sekiga. He did it on the spot in the company of members of his poetry club. Six of them, including the club's founder Yadoya no Meshimori (Rokujuen, 1753–1830), added kyoka poems, 31-syllable poems like the classical Japanese waka poem in form, but with a heavy emphasis on humor. Shunman jotted down a poem as well, in the bottom right corner of the painting, before signing and sealing it. Each poem takes the painted image as its point of departure. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.18/1995.18_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.18/1995.18_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.18/1995.18_full.tif