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Ablution Scene (Misogi)

Ablution Scene (Misogi)

late 1700s
(Japanese, active late 1700s)
Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
hanging scroll, ink, color and gold leaf on paper
Image: 23.4 x 109.4 cm (9 3/16 x 43 1/16 in.); Overall: 110 x 122.8 cm (43 5/16 x 48 3/8 in.); with knobs: 110 x 128.2 cm (43 5/16 x 50 1/2 in.)
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1985.29
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Three clues to this composition’s original format—a pair of doors to a cabinet shelf—are the two circles at either end, the seam down the center, and the size of the image.
  • ?–1985
    (Yoshiyuki Hosomi, Osaka, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1985–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [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= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 128, cat. no. 84
    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. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 39, pp. 120–121
  • 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).
    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).
    Rimpa Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989).
    Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1987-January 10, 1988).
    The Year in Review for 1985. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986).
  • {{cite web|title=Ablution Scene (Misogi)|url=false|author=Tawaraya Sōri|year=late 1700s|access-date=21 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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