Crossing at Sano

The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund

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Crossing at Sano

c. 1600–1640

ArtistTawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570–c. 1640)

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Medium: Hanging scroll mounted as a single-panel screen; ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions: Overall: 161.7 x 139.2 x 46.3 cm (63 11/16 x 54 13/16 x 18 1/4 in.); Diameter of base: 46.3 cm (18 1/4 in.); Painting only: 125.9 x 121.4 cm (49 9/16 x 47 13/16 in.); with frame: 151.9 x 130.1 x 3.2 cm (59 13/16 x 51 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.)
Classification: Painting
Style: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
Origin: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: John L. Severance Fund

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Provenance

Public

?-1949

(Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1949-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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(Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

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Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Japanese Decorative Style

Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen

Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections

Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235

Source exhibition text

Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961). Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977). Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984). Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 23, 2020-January 17, 2021).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Like many paintings from the Sōtatsu studio, a Kyoto-based atelier that ran the shop Tawaraya, this one is done in ink, mineral colors, and gold, and is formally reminiscent of 12th- and 13th-century paintings associated with the Japanese aristocracy. It depicts a man on horseback with two attendants crossing a bridge that once spanned the Kino River in Sano in eastern Wakayama Prefecture. The composition was inspired by a poem by Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) that translates as follows: <br><br>I stop my horse, but there is no shelter <br>as I brush off my sleeves <br>at Sano Crossing <br>in the evening snow.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 5 structured exhibitions.

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