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Collection Online as of December 25, 2025

Owl

1630s

Tsuda Bensaku

(Japanese, active 1620s–40s)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper
Painting only: 81 x 52.5 cm (31 7/8 x 20 11/16 in.); Including mounting: 170.2 x 59.7 cm (67 x 23 1/2 in.)
Kelvin Smith Fund 1988.35
Location: Not on view
  • ?–1988
    (Leighton R. Longhi Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1988–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • “The Year in Review for 1988.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30–75. Reproduced: p. 57; Mentioned: p. 74, no. 207 www.jstor.org
    Longhi, Leighton R. Leighton R. Longhi: Forty-Five Years in Asian Art. [New York, N.Y.]: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019. Reproduced: p. 151, fig. 126
  • A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).
  • {{cite web|title=Owl|url=false|author=Tsuda Bensaku|year=1630s|access-date=25 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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