Gazing at a Waterfall

The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund

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Gazing at a Waterfall

1790

ArtistTani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1841)

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Medium: hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions: Painting: 112.5 x 51.1 cm (44 5/16 x 20 1/8 in.); Mounted: 214 x 54.5 cm (84 1/4 x 21 7/16 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

?–1972

(Shogoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1972–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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(Shogoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, sold 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: 1972

The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art

Japanese art rotation

To the River's South in Japanese Painting

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Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011). Japanese art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 19, 2019-January 5, 2020). To the River's South in Japanese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 2023-June 2, 2024).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Artist Tani Bunchō painted this image in a mountain pavilion during winter. He inscribed it with two lines of a poem: “The stone cliff of layered rocks is extremely high. Waterfalls tumbling from the skies reverberate in the clouds.” The scholarly figure and attendant carrying his <em>qin</em> (a stringed instrument) are set amid majestically soaring mountains in China. For many people in Japan at the time, the image would call to mind a poem about a waterfall at Mount Lu by Chinese poet Li Bai (701–762).

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