Cleveland Museum of Art
Susuki Grass
- Date
- c. 1525
- Medium
- Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 151971
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Susuki grass has a seasonal association with autumn in the Japanese visual and literary tradition. It is one of the “Seven Flowers of Autumn,” along with bush clover, arrowroot, pink, patrinia , mistflower, and bellflower. This composition immerses the beholder in a field of grasses and golden bands of mist. The design may have served as a backdrop for poems brushed in ink on decorated papers and attached to the surface of the screens, a practice with a long tradition in Japan. The botanical name for susuki grass is miscanthus.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1984: (Eastern Fine Arts, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1984–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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