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Selections from the Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Kokin wakashū) with Design of Pines Along the Shore

Selections from the Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Kokin wakashū) with Design of Pines Along the Shore

1600s
calligraphy by

Hon'ami Kōetsu

(Japanese, 1558–1637)
painter

attributed to Tawaraya Sōtatsu

(Japanese, c. 1570-c. 1640)
Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615) to Edo period (1615-1858)
handscroll; ink on silk with gold and silver
Average: 32.7 x 549 cm (12 7/8 x 216 1/8 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1972.67
Location: not on view

Description

The calligrapher and craftsman Hon’ami Kōetsu frequently collaborated with Tawaraya Sōtatsu, a painter who ran a studio that produced fans and screens. Sōtatsu’s work featured abstracted and flattened shapes, fields of color and gold, and asymmetry. In particular, motifs that appeared in small scale, such as flora and fauna, in early decorated Japanese papers were painted in a larger scale—blown up as if seen under a magnifying glass. For this handscroll, Kōetsu brushed poems from the autumn section of a poetry anthology onto silk with a landscape of pines in gold and silver likely painted by Sōtatsu.
  • Hara, Yokahama, Japan
    ?-1972
    (Kochukyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1972-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987).
    Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
    Japanese Calligraphy. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (October 10-November 26, 1978).
    Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.67