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accession number: 1998.178
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Operating on Guan Yu's Arm, 1840s. Katsushika Ōi (Japanese, c. 1800-after 1857). Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk; mounted: 206.7 x 73.1 cm (81 3/8 x 28 3/4 in.); painting: 140.2 x 68.3 cm (55 3/16 x 26 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith Fund 1998.178
title: Operating on Guan Yu's Arm
title in original language: 関羽割臂図
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creation date: 1840s
creation date earliest: 1840
creation date latest: 1849
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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
* Katsushika Ōi (Japanese, c. 1800-after 1857) - artist
Artist Ōi was Hokusai's third daughter, and perhaps his most devoted student and a superb talent in her own right.
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measurements: Mounted: 206.7 x 73.1 cm (81 3/8 x 28 3/4 in.); Painting: 140.2 x 68.3 cm (55 3/16 x 26 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:
inscription: 款記「應為栄女筆」
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inscription: 「葛しか」白文方印
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Asian Games: The Art of Contest
opening date: 2004-10-14T00:00:00
Asian Games: The Art of Contest. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 14, 2004-February 5, 2005); National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (February 26-May 15, 2005).
title: Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave
opening date: 2017-05-25T04:00:00
Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave. The British Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (May 25-August 13, 2017); Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka, Japan (October 6-November 19, 2017).
title: Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235
opening date: 2022-04-08T04:00:00
Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meisaku ten. Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, Japan (January 19–26, 1957).', 'opening_date': '2019-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meisaku ten: Orinpikku Tokyo taikai kinen [The exhibition of ukiyoe hand-paintings [sic]: In commemoration of the Tokyo Olympics]. Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, Japan (October 8–18, 1964).', 'opening_date': '1964-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo [Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art]. Sendai City Museum, Sendai, Japan (June 11–July 17, 1988); Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (September 6–October 9, 1988); Sogo Museum, Yokohama, Japan (October 20–November 13, 1988).', 'opening_date': '1988-07-17T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten [肉筆浮世絵名品展 = Exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e painting]. Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (April 8–May 7, 1989).', 'opening_date': '1989-05-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Japanese Gallery 103 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 20, 1998–March 15, 1999).', 'opening_date': '1998-12-20T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Japanese Gallery 121 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 4–August 11, 2000).', 'opening_date': '2000-08-11T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Yamagata Hatsutaro
date: before 1998
footnotes:
citations:
(Christie's New York, "An Important Collection of Japanese Ukiyo-e Paintings," 27 October 1998, lot 84, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: October 27, 1998
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1998–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Mainichi Shinbunsha 每日新聞社. Nikuhitsu ukiyoe meisakuten mokuroku [Catalogue of an exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e painting]. Tōkyō: Isetan, 1957.
page number: no. 94
url:
Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meisaku ten: Orinpikku Tokyo taikai kinen [The exhibition of ukiyoe hand-paintings [sic]: In commemoration of the Tokyo Olympics].Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1964.
page number: no. 129
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Shibui, Kiyoshi 渋井清, and Sadao Kikuchi 菊池貞夫. Nikuhitsu ukiyoe bijinga shūsei [肉筆浮世絵, 美人画集成 = Ukiyo-e paintings of beauties in Japanese collections]. Tōkyō: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1983.
page number: Reproduced: vol. 2, pl. 20
url:
Azabu Museum of Art, and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, eds. Azabu Bijutsukan shozō nikuhitsu ukiyoe meihin ten [麻布美術館所蔵肉筆浮世絵名品展 = Ukiyo-e painting masterpieces in the collection of the Azabu Museum of Art]. Tōkyō: Azabu Bijutsukan, 1988.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 79
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Tazawa Hiroyoshi 田沢裕賀. "Azabu bijutsukan shozo nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Tenrankai annai" (Exhibition of ukiyo-e masterpieces in the Azabu Museum of Art: Exhibition news). Ukiyo-e geijutsu [浮世絵芸術 = Ukiyo-e Art] 94 (October 1988).
page number: Reproduced: title page
url:
Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten [肉筆浮世絵名品展 = Exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e painting]. Tōkyō: Itabashi Kuritsu Bijutsukan, 1989.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 51
url:
Nakamura, Hideki 中村英樹. Hokusai mangekyō: porifonīteki shutai e [北斎万華鏡 : ポリフォニー的主体へ = Gazing at Hokusai's constellation: toward polyphonic vision]. Tōkyō: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1990.
page number: pp. 100, 101
url:
Fister, Patricia. Kinsei no josei gakatachi: bijutsu to jendā [近世の女性画家たち: 美術とジェンダー = Japanese women artists of the kinsei era]. Kyōto-shi: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 1994.
page number: Reproduced: color pl. p. 228
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Kobayashi, Tadashi 小林忠 and Shūgō. Asano 浅野秀剛 . Azabu bijutsu kōgeikan [麻布美術工芸館 = Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts]. vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan [Ukiyo-e paintings in Japanese collections]. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 61
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Kubota Kazuhiro 久保田一洋. "Hokusai musume: Oi Eijo ron" [A discussion of Hokusai's daughter Oi Eijo]. Ukiyo-e geijutsu [浮世絵芸術 = Ukiyo-e Art] 107 (September 1995).
page number: Reproduced: fig. 7
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Christie's New York. An Important Collection of Japanese Ukiyo-e Paintings. 27 October 1998, lot 84.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 122–123, lot 84
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Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Cleveland Indian Arrives at the CMA,” November 27, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4223
Cunningham Michael R., "Family Legacy", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 39 no. 07, September
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1999-07/page/4
Gustafson, Eleanor H. "Museum accessions" The Magazine Antiques, December 1999, vol. CLVL no. 6.
page number: Reproduced: p. 778
url:
Rousmaniere, Nicole Coolidge. Births and Rebirths in Japanese Art: Essays Celebrating the Inauguration of The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Leiden: Hotei, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 8
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Finkel, Irving L., and Colin Mackenzie, editors. Asian Games: The Art of Contest. New York: Asia Society, 2004.
page number: p. 325
url:
Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005.
page number: Reproduced: p. 116
url:
Carpenter, John T. Hokusai and His Age: Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan. Amsterdam: Hotei, 2005.
page number: Reproduced: p. 102, n. 9
url:
Meech-Pekarik, Julia, and John T. Carpenter. Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860; [Issued in Connection with an Exhibition held Feb. 27 - May 4, 2008, Asia Society and Museum, New York, New York]. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.
page number: Reproduced: p. 162, fig. 116
url:
Clark, Timothy, Angus Lockyer, Ryoko Matsuba, Shūgō Asano, and Alfred Haft. Hokusai: beyond the great wave. New York, New York: Thames & Hudson in collaboration with the British Museum, 2017.
page number: Reproduced: p. 298, cat. no. 196
url:
Paget, Rhiannon. Hokusai: 1760-1849. Köln: Taschen, 2018.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 49
url:
Bouvette, Sharon, Amir L. Butt, Lacy E. Harville III, and Kenichi A. Tanaka. "From Ancient Arsenal to an Anesthetic: Historical Roles of Hyoscyamine and Aconitine in Anesthesia." Anesthesiology (May 2024).
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 1
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