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Collection Online as of December 14, 2025

Landscape

1700s

Japan, Edo period

(1615–1868)
hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Painting only: 102.8 x 54 cm (40 1/2 x 21 1/4 in.); Including mounting: 182.9 x 60.7 cm (72 x 23 7/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1985.111
Location: Not on view

Description

This composition was fashioned after works created by Zen clerics of the Muromachi period (1392–1573), who often added their original Chinese-style poems above an ink painting to make a hanging scroll called a shigajiku. The poems here quote from essays on Sima Guang (1019–1086) by the Chinese Song dynasty literatus Su Shi (1037–1101). They interpret the studio surrounded with bamboo as a metaphor for the garden of Sima, the Song dynasty scholar-official who, in imitation of the Tang poet Bai Juyi, enjoyed the garden in isolation during his exile in Luoyang.
  • ?–1985
    (Gatodo Gallery Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1985–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26–71. Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 208, pp. 29, 30, and 71 www.jstor.org
    Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. "The Lure of Painted Poetry." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 51, no. 2 (March/April 2011): 4–5. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 4 archive.org
    Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. Mentioned: p. 17; Reproduced: p. 19, no. 6
  • The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).
    Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).
    Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987).
    The Year in Review for 1985. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986).
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