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Nagisa Palace from the Tales of Ise
late 1800s
(Japanese, 1807–1891)
Image: 175.3 x 190.5 cm (69 x 75 in.); Each side: 162.8 x 88.6 cm (64 1/8 x 34 7/8 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
This screen depicts an episode from the Tales of Ise, a 10th-century collection of poems and associated narratives in which the main character composes the following poem while drinking sake and viewing cherry blossoms: If, in this world of ours / All the cherry blossoms / Disappeared / The heart of spring / Might find peace.Our hero relaxes on a shoulder rest, gazing at the flowers, his sake dish before him on a lacquered stand. A plump boy attendant monitors the sake dishes, a ewer at the ready. An associate sits with paper, ink, and brush, poised to record poems.
- ?–1980Chester Dale CarterDecember 18, 1980(Sotheby's New York, NY, December 18, 1980 sale, lot 131, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1980–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Chinese Paintings, Japanese Paintings and Screens: Property of the Estate of Chester Dale Carter; Sale 4509Y; Public Auction, Thursday, December 18, 1980 at 2 P.M. New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980. Lot 131Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1981.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 2 (February 1982): 39–82.
Published as: Narihira Viewing the Cherry Blossoms Mentioned: p. 83, no. 132; Reproduced: p. 75 www.jstor.orgCunningham, Michael R. “Byōbu: The Art of the Japanese Screen.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 7 (September 1984): 223–232.
Published as: Narihira Viewing the Cherry Blossoms Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 229–230, no. 7, fig. 8 www.jstor.orgCunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Reproduced: pp. 72–73, cat. no. 33Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 110 - Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021).Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-July 13, 2004).Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001).Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984).The Year in Review for 1981. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
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