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The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup
The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
Museum

The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup

later 1700s
Soga Shōhaku (Japanese, 1730–1781) visual detail
ArtistSoga Shōhaku (Japanese, 1730–1781)
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Medium
six-panel folding screen, ink and cut-gold foil on paper
Dimensions
Painting only: 120 x 352.2 cm (47 1/4 x 138 11/16 in.); Including mounting: 137.5 x 369.6 cm (54 1/8 x 145 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Style
ASIAN - Folding screen
Origin
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund

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Exhibitions

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The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art

Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections

Soga Shohaku (1730-81)

Source exhibition text

Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977). Soga Shohaku (1730-81). Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (organizer) (April 12-May 15, 2005). The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Responding to the desires of the middle class (<em>chonin</em>), some Japanese painters of the late Edo period moved away from the seriousness associated with the Chinese theme of reclusion, focusing instead on the motif’s humorous aspects. The theme Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup is based on a poem by the renowned 8th-century Chinese poet Du Fu about his eight colleagues. These scholars eagerly sought release from their official governmental duties and then supposedly fled the capital for the countryside. There, they engaged in wildly eccentric behavior and adventurous creative work, all fueled by copious amounts of wine. Shohaku’s version of events exaggerates the scholars’ pleasure, as seen in their comical facial expressions.

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