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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
Print
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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.
Vertically long hanging scroll with black and grey ink depicting a landscape with jagged mountains in the background and a house clinging to the side of a mountain on the left, a creek winding below. Perfectly straight lines create the outline and patterns of the house while expressive dashes convey leaves on the trees that partially cover it. Below, a gate stands on one side of the water and a gathering of people sit on the opposite bank. A bridge cuts across the lower center, the stream roiling as it runs over jagged rocks beyond it.

Orchid Pavilion Gathering

1777

Soga Shōhaku

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

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