Peafowl and Phoenixes
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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Peafowl and Phoenixes

late 1500s
Tosa Mitsuyoshi (Japanese, 1539–1613) visual detail
ArtistTosa Mitsuyoshi (Japanese, 1539–1613)
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Provenance

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?–1986

(Leighton R. Longhi Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1986–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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(Leighton R. Longhi Inc., New York, NY, 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 for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987). Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1987-January 10, 1988). Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4-December 11, 1988). The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th Century Art in Japan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19-December 1, 1991). Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - January-July 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (January 9-July 10, 2017). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121); July 13 - November 10, 2004.

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Phoenixes are fantastical birds said to inhabit paulownia trees and eat bamboo, and to celebrate virtuous rulers. Peafowl are birds that amuse themselves in the lake of the Buddha Amida’s Pure Land, a paradise where many once hoped to find themselves after death. Both birds appeared on Japanese textiles or paintings in the 1500s and 1600s, used in official ceremonies centered around emperors.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 6 structured exhibitions.

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