Emperor Yao Visiting Yu Chonghua

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Emperor Yao Visiting Yu Chonghua

Kusumi MorikageLinkedCulture matchlcp-cea7c2aa9f49

Date
mid- to late 1600s
Medium
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink, slight color, and gold on paper
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
143650

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One of a pair, this screen shows a section of the narrative of how the Chinese Emperor Yao (about 2356–2255 BC) selected his successor, Yu Chonghua (about 2294– 2184 BC), who would become Emperor Shun. The artist who painted this screen, Kusumi Morikage, trained with Kano Tan’yō (1602–1647), painter-in-residence to Japan’s shogun, the country’s ruler, and was one of his four top students. Despite the conservative subject matter, Morikage’s distinctive sensibility shines through in his playful treatment of the gray and white elephants in the far left panel of the composition. According to legend, Chonghua was so virtuous that in the spring, elephants bounded down from the mountains to help him till the soil with their tusks. The emperor's two-wheeled carriage sits in front of a thatched-roof farmhouse.

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Credit line
John L. Severance Fund
Provenance
?-1968: (Harry C. Nail, Jr. [1909-1990] sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1968: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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