Cleveland Museum of Art
Crossing at Sano
Tawaraya Sōtatsu
- Date
- c. 1600–1640
- Medium
- Hanging scroll mounted as a single-panel screen; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Like many paintings from the Sōtatsu studio, a Kyoto-based atelier that ran the shop Tawaraya, this one is done in ink, mineral colors, and gold, and is formally reminiscent of 12th- and 13th-century paintings associated with the Japanese aristocracy. It depicts a man on horseback with two attendants crossing a bridge that once spanned the Kino River in Sano in eastern Wakayama Prefecture. The composition was inspired by a poem by Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) that translates as follows: I stop my horse, but there is no shelter as I brush off my sleeves at Sano Crossing in the evening snow.
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