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

ArtistMatsumura Goshun (Japanese, 1752–1811)

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Medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
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

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(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

Year in Review: 1971

Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen

Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen

Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan

Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections

Stories in Japanese Art

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Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972). 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 (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984). Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1987-January 10, 1988). Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1993-March 6, 1994). 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 each of the twelve panels of this pair of screens. Goshun illustrated the episodes 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.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 7 structured exhibitions.

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