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Bodhidharma Crossing the Yangzi on a Reed

蘆葉達磨圖

1300s

China, Yuan dynasty

(1271-1368)

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

Painting only: 91.1 x 36.5 cm (35 7/8 x 14 3/8 in.); Overall: 175 x 38.5 cm (68 7/8 x 15 3/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 175 x 43 cm (68 7/8 x 16 15/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1964.44

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Fun Fact

Barefooted Bodhidharma sails across the Yangzi River balanced on a thin stalk of reed.

Description

Bodhidharma was a legendary Indian monk who is said to have transmitted the Chan (or Zen) doctrine from India to China in the 6th century. The inscribed poem is by the priest Liaoan Qingyu (1288–1363) and reads: "Wind rises from the reed flowers, the waves are high, / It's a long way to go beyond the cliff of the Shaoshi mountain, / Above the worlds of kalpas a flower is opening into five petals, / So that your barefoot heels are just fine for the whipping rattans."

Inscriptions

Inscription

蘆花風起浪頭高，少室岩前去路遙。劫外一花開五葉，腳跟正好喫藤條。

Inscription Translation

Poem and 2 seals of the priest Liao’an Qingyu 了庵清欲 (1288–1363). The wind sweeps through the blooming reeds and stirs the waves high. There is still a long way to the cliff of Mt. Shaoshi. Beyond the world of kalpas, a flower blossoms into five petals. My fleeting feet could not forestall the whipping by a rattan cane.

Provenance

Okazaki Masaya 岡崎正也 [late 1800s-early 1900s], Tokyo, Japan

Yamamoto Yoshiaki 山本義章 [early 1900s], Tokyo, Japan

Fujī Noriyoshi 藤井德義 [1900s], Osaka, Japan

?-1964

(N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1964-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Yonezawa, "Dharma," Kokka, no. 827 (February 1961), pp. 79-80. Reproduced: pp. 79-80, pl. 8

Lee, Sherman E. Tea Taste in Japanese Art. New York: distributed by H. Abrams, 1963. cat. no. 3

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 261 archive.org

Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. cat. no. 209

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 261 archive.org

Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. cat. no. 24

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 346 archive.org

Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. Reproduced: cat. no. 99, p. 124

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]. Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. Reproduced: p. 48, cat. no. 25

Zhang, Hongxing, Lizhong Ling, Masaaki Itakura, Charles Q. Mason, Shane McCausland, Camille Schmitt, and Clarissa von Spee, and Roderick Whitfield. Masterpieces of Chinese Painting, 700-1900. London: V&A Publishing, 2013. Reproduced: cat. no. 50, pp. 226-227

Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: pp. 114-116

Exhibition history

Tea taste in Japanese art. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (1963).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).

Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 1-31, 1965).

The Colors of Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 9-May 12, 1974).

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1985-February 24, 1986).

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).

Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (October 26, 2013-January 19, 2014).

Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017).

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蘆葉達磨圖

China, Yuan dynasty

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