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Famous Views of Ōmi

近江名所図絵

1660s-90s

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Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper

Image: 152.4 x 345.6 cm (60 x 136 1/16 in.); Overall: 165.7 x 358.2 cm (65 1/4 x 141 in.); Closed: 170 x 11.7 x 61.6 cm (66 15/16 x 4 5/8 x 24 1/4 in.); Panel: 165.7 x 59.7 cm (65 1/4 x 23 1/2 in.); with frame: 169.7 x 362.2 cm (66 13/16 x 142 5/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1983.19.1

Location

not on view

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 to the right and flowering cherry blossom trees 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, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).

Japanese art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 19, 2019-January 5, 2020).

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