Nagisa Palace from the Tales of Ise

The Cleveland Museum of Art · Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

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Nagisa Palace from the Tales of Ise

late 1800s

ArtistShibata Zeshin (Japanese, 1807–1891)

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Medium: Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, lacquer, and gold on silk
Dimensions: Image: 175.3 x 190.5 cm (69 x 75 in.); Each side: 162.8 x 88.6 cm (64 1/8 x 34 7/8 in.)
Classification: Painting
Style: ASIAN - Folding screen
Origin: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

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Provenance

Public

?–1980

Chester Dale Carter

December 18, 1980

(Sotheby's New York, NY, December 18, 1980 sale, lot 131, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1980–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

Chester Dale Carter (Sotheby's New York, NY, December 18, 1980 sale, lot 131, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

Public

The Year in Review for 1981

Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen

Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Rinpa (琳派)

Source exhibition text

The Year in Review for 1981. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984). Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). Rinpa (琳派). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021). Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-July 13, 2004).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

This screen depicts an episode from the <em>Tales of Ise</em>, a 10th-century collection of poems and associated narratives in which the main character composes the following poem while drinking sake and viewing cherry blossoms: If, in this world of ours / All the cherry blossoms / Disappeared / The heart of spring / Might find peace.<br><br>Our hero relaxes on a shoulder rest, gazing at the flowers, his sake dish before him on a lacquered stand. A plump boy attendant monitors the sake dishes, a ewer at the ready. An associate sits with paper, ink, and brush, poised to record poems.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 3 structured provenance events · 4 structured exhibitions.

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