id:			172573
accession number:	2015.63
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.63
updated:		2025-02-09 07:24:39.208000

Descent of the Nine Luminaries and the Seven Stars at Kasuga, mid- to late 1300s. Japan, Nanbokuchō period (1336–92). Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold and cut gold on silk; mounted: 184.5 x 58.5 cm (72 5/8 x 23 1/16 in.); painting only: 106 x 42 cm (41 3/4 x 16 9/16 in.); with knobs: 184.5 x 63.5 cm (72 5/8 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Lillian M. Kern Memorial Fund 2015.63

title:				Descent of the Nine Luminaries and the Seven Stars at Kasuga
title in original language:	北斗九曜春日降臨図
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			mid- to late 1300s
creation date earliest:		1336
creation date latest:		1392
current location:		
creditline:			Lillian M. Kern Memorial Fund
copyright:			

---

culture:	Japan, Nanbokuchō period (1336–92)
technique:	Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold and cut gold on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

---

CREATORS

---

measurements: Mounted: 184.5 x 58.5 cm (72 5/8 x 23 1/16 in.); Painting only: 106 x 42 cm (41 3/4 x 16 9/16 in.); with knobs: 184.5 x 63.5 cm (72 5/8 x 25 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:


inscriptions:

---

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Japanese and Korean Gallery Rotation
	opening date:   2015-07-06T04:00:00
	<i>Japanese and Korean Gallery Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (July 6, 2015-January 4, 2016).

	title:		Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art 神道－日本美術における神性の発見
	opening date:   2019-04-09T04:00:00
	<i>Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art 神道－日本美術における神性の発見</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-June 30, 2019).

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

---

PROVENANCE

	(Piasa Auction house, Paris, France, June 13, 2014, Lot. 261, sold to Leighton R. Longhi Inc.)
	date: June 13, 2014
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	(Leighton R. Longhi Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 2014–15
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2015–
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


---

fun fact:


digital description:


wall description:

---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 84–85
	url:		

	Vilbar, Sinéad. “Acquisitions 2015: Japanese Art.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> vol. 56, no. 2 (March/April 2016): 34–35.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 34, 35; Mentioned: p. 35.
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2016-02

	編集・発行奈良国立博物館., and hakkō Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan henshū. <em>春日信仰を中心とした南都における神祇信仰の展開とその遺品に関する総合的研究</em>. Edited by 奈良国立博物館 and Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan. Nara-shi Noboriōji-chō: 奈良国立博物館, 2017.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 78–79, fig. 13
	url:		

	Vilbar, Sinéad. "A Celestial Landing: The Seven Stars and the Nine Celestials Descending at Kasuga." <em>Arts of Asia</em> 48, no. 3(May-June 2018): 68-77.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 68, fig. 1; p. 72, fig. 8 (detail)
	url:		

	Vilbar, Sinéad, and Kevin Gray Carr. <em>Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art. </em>Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 242–245, no. 96
	url:		

	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: p. 49, fig. 30
	url:		

---

IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2015.63/2015.63_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2015.63/2015.63_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2015.63/2015.63_full.tif