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accession number:	2020.258
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Poems and Pictures of the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, 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 Xiao-Xiang
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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	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

	title:		China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
	opening date:   2023-09-10T04:00:00
	<i>China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<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).', 'opening_date': '2018-11-01T00:00:00'}

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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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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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