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Orchid Pavilion Gathering

1777

Soga Shōhaku 曾我蕭白

(Japanese, 1730–1781)
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium
hanging scroll; ink on silk
Measurements
Painting: 122.7 x 55.7 cm (48 5/16 x 21 15/16 in.); Mounted: 197.4 x 58.8 cm (77 11/16 x 23 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1979.53
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

The Buddhist temple Bairinji in Kurume City, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, own compositions by the same artist on the same theme.

Description

This painting depicts a famous gathering that took place in China in AD 353 to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, also known as the Double Third Festival, as it takes place on the third day of the third lunar month. The host invited everyone to the Orchid Pavilion to compose poetry and drink wine. Guests floated wine cups down a nearby creek, and where they landed, people had to drink the wine and compose a poem.
A hanging scroll with black and gray ink depicts a mountainous landscape with a house perched on the left, a creek winding below it. The house is outlined and patterned largely in straight lines, while expressive dashes convey foliage on the trees partially covering it. Near the center, a gate stands on the creek's left bank, and people sit on the right. A bridge arcs across the bottom, the water roiling as it runs over jagged rocks.

Orchid Pavilion Gathering

1777

Soga Shōhaku

(Japanese, 1730–1781)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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