Cleveland Museum of Art
Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals
Tatebayashi Kagei
- 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
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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