Cleveland Museum of Art
Short Nap on a Long Summer Day
Okada BeisanjinLinkedCulture matchlcp-c2ab0f43fd90
- Date
- late 1700s–early 1800s
- Medium
- leaf from a pair of folding albums; ink and light color on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 146398
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The Nanga, or "Southern School" painters of 17th- and 18th-century Japan were greatly influenced by Chinese culture. The subjects and styles of their work reflected the contemporary Japanese taste for imported Chinese objects and learning. A common practice among Nanga painters was the exchange of small paintings and calligraphies. They also celebrated special gatherings of artist-friends by producing individual sheets that were then gathered together in albums. The sheets shown here were part of such a gathering.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mary B. Lee, C. Bingham Blossom, Dudley S. Blossom III, Laurel B. Kovacik, and Elizabeth B. Blossom, in memory of Elizabeth B. Blossom
- Provenance
- ?–1972: (Kuniyoshi Miura, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1972–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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