id:			163546
accession number:	2004.86
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.86
updated:		2025-10-17 11:51:20.256000

God of Thunder (Raijin), mid-1600s. Studio of Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570–c. 1640). Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper; image: 150.4 x 343 cm (59 3/16 x 135 1/16 in.); overall: 162.4 x 355.8 cm (63 15/16 x 140 1/16 in.); panel: 162.4 x 59.2 cm (63 15/16 x 23 5/16 in.); with frame: 165.6 x 358.6 cm (65 3/16 x 141 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 2004.86

title:				God of Thunder (Raijin)
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creation date:			mid-1600s
creation date earliest:		1640
creation date latest:		1670
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
technique:	six-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Folding screen
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570–c. 1640)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 150.4 x 343 cm (59 3/16 x 135 1/16 in.); Overall: 162.4 x 355.8 cm (63 15/16 x 140 1/16 in.); Panel: 162.4 x 59.2 cm (63 15/16 x 23 5/16 in.); with frame: 165.6 x 358.6 cm (65 3/16 x 141 3/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Leighton R. Longhi Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–2004
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2004–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Chung, Anita. "God of Thunder." <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 45, no. 3 (March 2005): 12–14.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 12–14
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2005-03/page/12/mode/2up

	Masello, David, Dick Kagan, and Doris Goldstein. “Top 100 Treasures.” <em>Art &amp; Antiques</em> vol. 28, no. 11 (November 2005): 75–103.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 90, no. 53
	url:		http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ingallslibrary.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=2&sid=95a267a0-ce0a-4f15-ac31-2a70b14085e9%40sessionmgr4006&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=505167613&db=asu

	Tsuji, Nobuo 辻惟雄, Takeo Izumi 泉武夫, Yūji Yamashita 山下裕二 , Masaaki Itakura 板倉聖哲, and Toshinobu Yasumura 安村敏信 . <em>Sōtatsu, Kōrin to Katsura Rikyū: Edo jidai II </em>[宗達・光琳と桂離宮: 江戶時代 II]. Tōkyō: Shōgakkan, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced:  p. 233, fig. 40
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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. 15, pp. 58–61
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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: pp. 288–289, fig. 282
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IMAGES

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