
Cleveland Museum of Art
Taira no Kanemori of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals
- Date
- 1200s
- Medium
- Section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 128458
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Taira no Kanemori was one of the 36 poetic immortals of classical Japanese literature. This painting is a fragment of what was once a handscroll depicting all 36 poets.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- ?-1951: (Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1951-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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