Cleveland Museum of Art
Tiger in Wind
Maruyama ŌkyoLinkedCulture matchlcp-26e4eefa7c04
- Date
- 1800s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) to Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 146036
What the image shows
A tiger cub is depicted in a monochromatic ink painting.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The seals appended to the inscription on this painting suggest that the text was brushed by Yūjō (1723–1773), an imperial prince who became a Buddhist monk and was abbot of Enman'in at Miidera. The line is from a poem attributed to a Yuan dynasty poet, Yu Ruyu (dates unknown), and describes the sound of a fierce wind lashing the ground. Wind is associated with the roar of the tiger. Yūjō was Maruyama Ōkyo's most important patron as a young artist, and this painting has a signature asserting that Ōkyo created it in 1772, the year before Yūjō's death. While Yūjō produced a preface for a now famous set of handscrolls he commissioned Ōkyo to paint, and a number of Ōkyo's compositions for Enman'in survive, this work would appear to be one imagining their relationship, as opposed to a genuine piece.
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- Credit line
- Sundry Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- Murado Torujiro, Ōtsu, Japan | ?–1971: (Nisaburo Mizutani, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1971–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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