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Scenes from Essays in Idleness

Matsumura GoshunLinkedCulture matchlcp-72453c890cdf

Date: late 1700s–early 1800s
Medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department: Japanese Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 146143

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Matsumura Goshun inscribed passages from Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenkō’s (1283–1350) well-known collection of anecdotes, Essays in Idleness , across the top of each of the twelve panels of this pair of screens. Goshun illustrated the episodes with his vision of the figures who feature in them. The texts cascade down from right to left, forming unique compositional relationships with the images below.

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Credit line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Provenance: ?–1971: (Mathias Komor [1909–1984], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1971–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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