Collection Online as of August 16, 2022
1660s-90s
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Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper
Overall: 170 x 336 cm (66 15/16 x 132 5/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1983.19
Description Ōmi is an area around Lake Biwa near Kyoto. The Shinto shrine Hiyoshi Taisha and the Buddhist temple Ishiyamadera are in the upper right and upper left of the composition, respectively. At center is the pilgrimage route, and people in the town before the temple gates. Harvested rice fields at right and cherry blossom trees in flower at left show seasonal change from winter to spring.
Provenance Nesè Collection, Switzerland
?-1983
(Marion Hammer, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1983-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art. Tōyō kaiga no seika : tokubetsuten : Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art 東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから]. Nara, Japan: Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Heisei 10 1998. Reproduced: pp. 134-135, cat. no. 88
Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art . Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Reproduced: pp. 30-31
Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. Reproduced: cat. no. 35, p. 114-115
McKelway, Matthew P. "Views of Lake Biwa." In Japanese Art: Critical and Primary Sources. Morgan Pitelka, ed., 57-63. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Mentioned: pp. 57-63
Exhibition history
Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art . Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).
Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art . Tokyo National Museum (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).
The Year in Review for 1983 . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen . The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984).
Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1987-January 10, 1988).
Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).
Japanese art rotation . The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 19, 2019-January 5, 2020).
