id: 169281 accession number: 2011.16 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.16 updated: 2025-06-20 11:29:58.004000 Storing Life, 1979. Aoyama Sanu (Japanese, 1912–1993). Ink on paper; image: 43 x 68.5 cm (16 15/16 x 26 15/16 in.); framed: 57 x 83 cm (22 7/16 x 32 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Aoyama Keiji, 2011.16 title: Storing Life title in original language: 貯塵 series: series in original language: creation date: 1979 creation date earliest: 1979 creation date latest: 1979 current location: creditline: Gift of Aoyama Keiji copyright: --- culture: Japan, Shōwa period (1926–89) technique: ink on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Calligraphy find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Aoyama Sanu (Japanese, 1912–1993) - artist --- measurements: Image: 43 x 68.5 cm (16 15/16 x 26 15/16 in.); Framed: 57 x 83 cm (22 7/16 x 32 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art opening date: 2011-03-27T00:00:00 The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011). title: Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay opening date: 2024-06-07T04:00:00 Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7, 2024-June 15, 2025). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Aoyama family collection, Tokyo, Japan, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1979–2024 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2024– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Mentioned: P. 97; reproduced: P. 95, no. 96 url: --- IMAGES