Cleveland Museum of Art
Horse Race at the Kamo Shrine
- Date
- early to mid-1600s
- Medium
- One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gilded paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 148858
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Kamo Shrine in Kyoto, seen in the upper half of the left screen, has held an annual horse race on May 5th since the ninth century. Serving as a snapshot of the festivities, this pair of screens captures nearly 600 people watching the race, beginning at the bottom part of the right screen and continuing to the left. The race is a great spectacle where aristocratic riders cling to their fast and unwieldy mounts. While many of those in attendance seem in rapt attention to the main event, other vignettes depict people engaged in an array of activities. This pair of screens was likely originally part of a group of linked murals.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1976: (Kochukyo Co., Inc., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1976–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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