Dragon and Tiger

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Dragon and Tiger

Sesson ShūkeiLinkedCulture matchlcp-b56ed7bf3266

Date
c. 1546–56
Medium
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink on paper
Culture
Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573) to Momoyama period (1573–1615)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
135592

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A tiger sits in a bamboo grove whipped with fierce wind, while a dragon claws through clouds above rough waves. Tiger and dragon are Chinese cosmological symbols of the balancing forces in the world, yin (the feminine aspect) and yang (the masculine aspect). The tiger's roar is also said to generate wind, and the dragon clouds. The screens may have originally been meant to express the fluctuating nature of the world as envisioned in the practice of military divination, or forecasting, based on the Yijing ( Book of Changes ). This pair of screens is considered the masterpiece of Sesson's body of work, and may have been created for the lord of Odawara in eastern Japan.

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Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
H. Mitsui; C. Satomi. | ?-1959: (Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1959-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1959-present

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