id: 86111 accession number: 2015.589 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.589 updated: 2023-03-03 07:00:55.557000 Landscape, early 1600s. Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615) to Edo period (1615-1858). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; painting: 143.6 x 72.7 cm (56 9/16 x 28 5/8 in.); mounted: 251.1 x 90.3 cm (98 7/8 x 35 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from the Collection of George Gund III 2015.589 title: Landscape title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early 1600s creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1630 current location: creditline: Gift from the Collection of George Gund III copyright: --- culture: Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615) to Edo period (1615-1858) technique: hanging scroll, ink and color on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Sesshū Tōyō (Japanese, 1420–1506) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 143.6 x 72.7 cm (56 9/16 x 28 5/8 in.); Mounted: 251.1 x 90.3 cm (98 7/8 x 35 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III opening date: 2017-05-21T04:00:00 Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21-September 3, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III" (May 21- September 3 2017) --- PROVENANCE Daté Family Collection date: footnotes: citations: George Gund III [1937-2013], ?-2015, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-2015 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2015-present date: 2015- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Other paintings from the same set are in the collections of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. digital description: wall description: This painting belongs to a group of eight that were likely mounted as a pair of four-panel folding screens representing the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers. The screens were the property of the Date family, who once ruled Sendai in northern Honshu, the main Japanese island. This one represents the theme of returning sails off a distant shore, and is in the style of Chinese painter Li Tang (1050–1130).

Some scholars believe it is the work of Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506), one of the most famous Japanese painters, or by one of his disciples. Sesshū traveled to Ming dynasty China on a ship sent by the powerful Ōuchi family of Yamaguchi at the southern tip of Honshu. This gave him the distinction of being the only Japanese painter of the Muromachi period to have experienced Ming China firsthand. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Longhi, Leighton R. Leighton R. Longhi: Forty-Five Years in Asian Art. [New York, N.Y.]: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019. page number: Reproduced: p. 65, fig. 49 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2015.589/2015.589_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2015.589/2015.589_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2015.589/2015.589_full.tif