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Ghost and Oil Lamp
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Kelvin Smith Fund
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Ghost and Oil Lamp

1810
Tani Bun'ichi (Japanese, 1787–1818) visual detail
ArtistTani Bun'ichi (Japanese, 1787–1818)
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Medium
hanging scroll, ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions
Painting only: 109.2 x 48.9 cm (43 x 19 1/4 in.); Including mounting: 187.3 x 65.4 cm (73 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Style
ASIAN - Hanging scroll
Origin
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Kelvin Smith Fund

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Provenance

Public
?-1992

(Andreas Leisinger, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1992-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

(Andreas Leisinger, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

Public
Julie Mehretu: Portals

Source exhibition text

Julie Mehretu: Portals. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 13, 2022). Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 21, 2014-January 13, 2015).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Tani Bun’ichi was the adopted son of Tani Buncho (1763-1840), a master painter and connoisseur. A Bun’ichi painting remarkably similar to this one that depicts a ghost by a lacquer lamp stand, is in the collection the Tokyo temple Zensho-an. That painting once belonged to Sanyutei Encho (1839-1900), a famed raconteur of ghost stories who donated his collection of ghost paintings to the temple. An inscription in gold on the lamp stand in this painting, identical in content to that on the Zensho-an painting, indicates that it was executed in the 12th month of 1810. Bun’ichi explains that he did not like painting ghosts, but tried it out after listening to a person by the name of Ono.

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 1 structured exhibitions.

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