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Scenes from Essays in Idleness
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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Scenes from Essays in Idleness

late 1700s–early 1800s
Matsumura Goshun (Japanese, 1752–1811) visual detail
ArtistMatsumura Goshun (Japanese, 1752–1811)
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Medium
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image: 146.5 x 330.7 cm (57 11/16 x 130 3/16 in.); Overall: 170.2 x 375.8 cm (67 x 147 15/16 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
?–1971

(Mathias Komor [1909–1984], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1971–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

(Mathias Komor [1909–1984], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

Public
Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen

Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections

Stories in Japanese Art

Source exhibition text

Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977). Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1987-January 10, 1988). Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). Stories in Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 8, 2021-April 3, 2022).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Matsumura Goshun inscribed passages from Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenkō’s (1283–1350) well-known collection of anecdotes, <em>Essays in Idleness,</em> across the top of the panels of this screen and its pair. Goshun illustrated the narratives with his vision of the figures who feature in them. The texts cascade down from right to left, forming unique compositional relationships with the images below. The episodes offer a veritable portrait of human idiosyncrasy, from one man’s deep faith in radishes to another’s inability to avoid nicknames.

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 4 structured exhibitions.

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