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The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
Museum
The Saltmaker's Story
early 1600s
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Provenance
Public?–1972
(Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1972–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Source provenance text
(Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1987-January 10, 1988). Stories in Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 8, 2021-April 3, 2022).
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Once read and copied by girls at New Year’s celebrations and included in dowries, <em>The</em> <em>Saltmaker’s Story</em> is a rags-to-riches tale in which daughters are gifts from the gods. Despite his simple outlook, the main character progresses from humble roots as an associate at Kashima Shrine to the elite status of grandfather of the emperor through the intervention of the Kashima deity. <em>The Saltmaker’s Story</em> is traditionally presented in a set of three scrolls, but the text of this set has been removed by a previous owner, who remounted the illustrations as a pair. The paintings of this one take us from right to left through the first half of the tale.
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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 3 structured exhibitions.
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