id: 160300 accession number: 1998.178 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.178 updated: 2024-06-04 11:09:29.173000 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 series: series in original language: creation date: 1840s creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1849 current location: creditline: Kelvin Smith Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) technique: hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 款記「應為栄女筆」 translation: remark: inscription: 「葛しか」白文方印 translation: remark: --- 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). --- 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'} --- 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 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1998– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Cleveland Indian Arrives at the CMA,” November 27, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.178/1998.178_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.178/1998.178_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.178/1998.178_full.tif