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Six-panel folding screen depicting people walking along a gold path weaving between grey-brown and orange-brown mountains, a grey-brown stream winding across the lower right corner. Lower left, a person wearing white robes holds the reins of a black horse. Right, on the path, stands a person in dark blue and light brown robes. Further up the path in the upper center walks a person in light blue robes with a rectangular box on their back. All have medium-light skin tones.

Ivy Lane

1700s

Fukae Roshū

(Japanese, 1699–1757)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
six-panel folding screen; ink and color on gilded paper
Image: 133.1 x 267.6 cm (52 3/8 x 105 3/8 in.); Overall: 136.5 x 271 cm (53 3/4 x 106 11/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1954.127
Location: Not on view

Description

In an episode from the tenth-century literary classic The Tales of Ise, a courtier happens upon a Buddhist priest on an ivy-covered pass on Mount Utsu, a Japanese homonym for “Melancholy Mountain.” He entrusts the priest with a letter to a former lover in the capital whom he laments he can no longer see, even in dreams. The Tales of Ise features poems set within a basic narrative of the journeys of a courtier in exile.
  • T. Hara, Yokohama, Japan
    ?–1954
    (Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1954–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman. "Roshū's 'Utsunoyama: The Pass through the Mountains.'" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 42, no. 10 (December 1955): 201–223. Mentioned: p. 219; Reproduced: pp. 222–223 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 922 archive.org
    The Human Image: A Commemorative Catalogue for the Opening of Cullinan Hall, October 10 Through November 23, 1958. Houston, Tex: Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, 1958. Reproduced: cat. no. 18, fig. 18
    Sickman, L. C. S. Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections. New York: Asia Society, 1960. Reproduced and Mentioned: pp. 32–33
    Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. Tokyo: Makoto Nakao, 1962. Reproduced: cat. no. 83, p. 84 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 282 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 282 archive.org
    Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections II; An Offering of Treasures Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of Asia House Gallery. [New York]: Distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1970. Reproduced: cat. no. 18a, pp. 32–34
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 381 archive.org
    Van der Marck, Jan. In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship. Miami, Fla., U.S.A.: The Center, 1984. Reproduced: cat. no. 67, pp. 62–63, 240
    Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 222–223
    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: pp. 126–127, cat. no. 83
    Cuningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 44–45
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 245
    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: pp. 126–127, cat. no. 42
  • Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 23, 2020-January 17, 2021).
    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).
    Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001).
    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).
    Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1993-March 6, 1994).
    Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984).
    In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship. Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL (January 12-April 22, 1984).
    Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
    Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977).
    Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961).
    Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (January 5-February 14, 1960).
    Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections. The Asia Society, New York, NY (spring 1960).
    The Human Image. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (October 10-November 23, 1958).
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