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Returning Sails off a Distant Shores, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

瀟湘八景の内　遠浦歸帆図

1788

Part of a set. See all set records

Tani Bunchō 谷文晁

(Japanese, 1763–1841)

Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Album leaf remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Image: 29.5 x 49 cm (11 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.); Overall: 129 x 67 cm (50 13/16 x 26 3/8 in.)

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1980.188.3

Location

not on view

Description

This painting was part of a set of album leaves representing the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme originating in Chinese poetry and painting that spread to both Korea and Japan. Southern China’s Xiao-Xiang area, where the mist-covered banks of the Xiang River created a complex landscape shifting like the moods and minds of people, captured the imaginations of generations of painters and calligraphers. Inscriptions on these works suggest that they were possibly ordered by newly prominent Japanese Confucian scholars.

Provenance
?-1980
(Katsuhiro Kobayashi, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1980-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 17c
Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1980.188.3