Cleveland Museum of Art
Moon Viewing, from The Tale of Heike
Yosa BusonLinkedCulture matchlcp-daf837384ba8
- Date
- 1700s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 146037
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Drawing from Japanese literature, Yosa Buson copied almost the entire text of the “Moon Viewing” episode from The Tale of the Heike , a story of the rise and fall of the Taira family. The two characters he painted were given nicknames based on 31-syllable waka poems they composed. Seen from behind at the top is Matsuyoi, or “Waiting at Nightfall,” while the person striding below is Mono ka wa Kurando, roughly equivalent to “‘It’s Nothing’ Chamberlain.” The Tale of the Heike is a great historical romance written around 1240.
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- Credit line
- Sundry Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1971: (Nisaburo Mizutani, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1971–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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