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Poems and Pictures of the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
1605–12
(Japanese, 1547–1618)
calligrapher
(Japanese, 1562–1612)
40.3 x 657.8 cm (15 7/8 x 259 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2020.258
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
The “Tō” of Tōgan comes from the name of painter Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506).Description
Unkoku Tōgan brushed these scenes using the splashed-ink technique associated in Japan with the Chinese monk Yujian Ruofen (active late 1200s). Xiao-Xiang refers to the region in present-day Hunan province, where the Xiang River and its tributaries converge. Each of the eight views evokes a time of day or season. The earliest surviving series of Xiao-Xiang paintings is by Wang Hong (active mid-1100s), but textual evidence tells us the theme appears earlier. It was later adopted in Japan and Korea, as seen here. The poems were inscribed by Inkei Gentetsu, the third abbot of the Rinzai Zen temple Tōshunji, Japan- Mōri family, Yamaguchi, Japan?–2020(London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)2020–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Fukuda, Yoshiko 福田善子 and Hideo Yamamoto 山本英男. Unkoku Tōgan: botsugo yonhyakunen [雲谷等顔: 没後四〇〇年 = Unkoku Togan: 400th memorial retrospective]. Yamaguchi-shi: Unkoku Tōgan Ten Jikkō Iinkai, 2018. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 78, pp. 150-153, 174-175, 202-203Fukuda Yoshiko, “Unkoku Tōgan hitsu Inkei Gentetsu san Shōshō hakkei shiga kan (Handscroll of Poems and Paintings of the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang brushed by Unkoku Tōgan and Inscribed by Gentetsu),” Kokka, no. 1492, vol. 125, no. 7, Reiwa 2, 2-gatsu (February 2020), pp. 22-28.
- China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).Unkoku Tōgan: botsugo yonhyakunen [雲谷等顔: 没後四〇〇年 = Unkoku Togan: 400th memorial retrospective]. Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, Yamaguchi-shi, Japan (November 1-December 9, 2018).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.258