Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals

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Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals

Tatebayashi KageiLinkedCulture matchlcp-a13cd8f851a7

Date
mid 1700s
Medium
two-fold screen; ink, color, and gold on paper
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
136297

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Fujiwara no Kintō (996–1075), a Japanese courtier, scholar, and poet, compiled select examples by the most celebrated composers of 31-syllable poems ( waka ) from the 600s to the 1000s. Painters soon made these “thirty-six poetic immortals” a favorite subject, traditionally presenting the poets in sequential, idealized portraits paired with their poems. In this interpretation, a chronologically impossible gathering of these great talents is in progress. The screen’s composition follows one devised by design virtuoso Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716). The green surface edged with stripes at the upper left of the painting represents tatami matting with a silk border.

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Credit line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Provenance
?–1960: (Victor L. Hauge [1919–2013], Falls Church, VA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1960–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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