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accession number:	2020.258
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Poems and Pictures of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, 1605–12. Unkoku Tōgan (Japanese, 1547-1618), inscribed by Inkei Gentetsu (Japanese, 1562-1612). Handscroll; ink on paper; 40.3 x 657.8 cm (15 7/8 x 259 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2020.258

title:				Poems and Pictures of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
title in original language:	瀟湘八景詩画巻
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creation date:			1605–12
creation date earliest:		1605
creation date latest:		1612
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615)
technique:	Handscroll; ink on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Handscroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Unkoku Tōgan (Japanese, 1547-1618)  - artist

* Inkei Gentetsu (Japanese, 1562-1612)  - calligrapher
Inkei Gentetsu was the third abbot of Tōshun-ji 洞春寺 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
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measurements: 40.3 x 657.8 cm (15 7/8 x 259 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Each painting sealed with red gourd-shaped seal reading Unkoku (雲谷) and a square seal reading Tōgan (等顔).
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	inscription:	Each painting prefaced with a titled poem on the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang by Yujian Ruofen (active late 13th century) inscribed by Japanese Buddhist monk Inkei Gentetsu (1562–1612).
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	inscription:	右寫玉㵎之筆勢／雪舟末葉等顔筆
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Unkoku Tōgan: botsugo yonhyakunen </em>[雲谷等顔: 没後四〇〇年 = Unkoku Togan: 400th memorial retrospective]. Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, Yamaguchi-shi, Japan (November 1-December 9, 2018).

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PROVENANCE

	Mōri family, Yamaguchi, Japan
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	(London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020-
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fun fact: 
The “Tō” of Tōgan comes from the name of painter Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506).

digital description: 
Works on the theme of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers existed in China as early as the late eleventh century. This Japanese treatment of the subject features poems by the Chinese monk Yujian Ruofen, who was active in the late 13th century. It also emulates Yujian’s splashed-ink mode to create highly abstracted landscapes evoking misty settings.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Fukuda, Yoshiko 福田善子 and Hideo Yamamoto 山本英男. <em>Unkoku Tōgan: botsugo yonhyakunen </em>[雲谷等顔: 没後四〇〇年 = Unkoku Togan: 400th memorial retrospective]. Yamaguchi-shi: Unkoku Tōgan Ten Jikkō Iinkai, 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 78, pp. 150-153, 174-175, 202-203
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	Fukuda Yoshiko, “Unkoku Tōgan hitsu Inkei Gentetsu san Shōshō hakkei shiga kan (Handscroll of Poems and Paintings of the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang brushed by Unkoku Tōgan and Inscribed by Gentetsu),” <em>Kokka</em>, no. 1492, vol. 125, no. 7, Reiwa 2, 2-<em>gatsu</em> (February 2020), pp. 22-28.
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IMAGES

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