id:			159040
accession number:	1995.245
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.245
updated:		2023-08-23 23:33:25.024000

Rei Shōjo (Ling Zhaonu), 1500s. Shunoku Sōen (Japanese, 1529–1611). Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper; image: 97.6 x 37.2 cm (38 7/16 x 14 5/8 in.); overall: 183.4 x 49.3 cm (72 3/16 x 19 7/16 in.); with knobs: 183.4 x 54.5 cm (72 3/16 x 21 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Rosemarie and Leighton Longhi 1995.245

title:				Rei Shōjo (Ling Zhaonu)
title in original language:	霊昭女図
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1500s
creation date earliest:		1500
creation date latest:		1599
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of Rosemarie and Leighton Longhi
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
technique:	hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Shunoku Sōen (Japanese, 1529–1611)  - inscription by

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measurements: Image: 97.6 x 37.2 cm (38 7/16 x 14 5/8 in.); Overall: 183.4 x 49.3 cm (72 3/16 x 19 7/16 in.); with knobs: 183.4 x 54.5 cm (72 3/16 x 21 7/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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).

	title:		Japanese art rotation
	opening date:   2019-08-19T04:00:00
	<i>Japanese art rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 19, 2019-January 5, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Leighton R. and Rosemarie Longhi, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1995
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	citations: 	


	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1995–
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fun fact:


digital description:
Legend has it that Chinese beauty Ling Zhaonu, whose name is pronounced Rei Shōjo in Japanese, was a model of devotion to her parents. She put great effort into selling baskets made by her elderly father, a devout Buddhist, thereby keeping the family afloat financially. The verse on the painting relates her story, and was inscribed by a Zen monk.

wall description:

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<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: 	Reproduced: p. 117, cat. no. 78
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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: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 14, pp. 56–57
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	Longhi, Leighton R. <em>Leighton R. Longhi: Forty-Five Years in Asian Art</em>. [New York, N.Y.]: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 70, fig. 55
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IMAGES

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