Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of N. V. Hammer

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Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

1700s

ArtistWatanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683–1755)

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Medium: Six-panel folding screen, ink on paper
Dimensions: Image: 150 x 356 cm (59 1/16 x 140 3/16 in.); Overall: 170 x 376 cm (66 15/16 x 148 1/16 in.)
Classification: Painting
Style: ASIAN - Folding screen
Origin: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: Gift of N. V. Hammer

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Provenance

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Provenance event

R. Fukui, Tokyo, Japan

Provenance event

Mayuyama and Co., Tokyo, Japan

?-1968

N. V. Hammer, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1968-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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R. Fukui, Tokyo, Japan Mayuyama and Co., Tokyo, Japan N. V. Hammer, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

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Year in Review for 1968

Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen

Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art

The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art

Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections

Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting

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Year in Review for 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969). 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). Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1985-February 24, 1986). Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Watanabe Shiko, an Edo period painter who combined Kano school style with Rimpa style, re-created the Xiao and the Xiang rivers on a pair of eight-panel screens. For this composition, he followed the Kano school’s sense of space, adapted from miniature copying paintings (<em>shukuzu</em>) by the Japanese artist Kano Tanyu. Watanabe revised the typical representations of the Xiao and the Xiang rivers by rendering the theme Wild Geese Descending to Sandbar on the right screen and Evening Bell from Mist-Shrouded Temple on the left screen. He depicted simple motifs—moon, boat, geese, and temple—to suggest the other scenes while also creating airy space.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 4 structured provenance events · 6 structured exhibitions.

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