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Poems and Pictures of the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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Poems and Pictures of the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

1605–12
Unkoku Tōgan (Japanese, 1547–1618) visual detail
ArtistUnkoku Tōgan (Japanese, 1547–1618)
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Mōri family, Yamaguchi, Japan

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(London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

2020–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Mōri family, Yamaguchi, Japan (London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024). Unkoku Tōgan: botsugo yonhyakunen [雲谷等顔: 没後四〇〇年 = Unkoku Togan: 400th memorial retrospective]. Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, Yamaguchi-shi, Japan (November 1-December 9, 2018).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Unkoku Tōgan brushed these scenes using the splashed-ink technique associated in Japan with the Chinese monk Yujian Ruofen (active late 1200s). Xiao-Xiang refers to the region in present-day Hunan province, where the Xiang River and its tributaries converge. Each of the eight views evokes a time of day or season. The earliest surviving series of Xiao-Xiang paintings is by Wang Hong (active mid-1100s), but textual evidence tells us the theme appears earlier. It was later adopted in Japan and Korea, as seen here. The poems were inscribed by Inkei Gentetsu, the third abbot of the Rinzai Zen temple Tōshunji, Japan

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