Gazing at a Waterfall

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Gazing at a Waterfall

Tani BunchōLinkedCulture matchlcp-6930b61f573c

Date
1790
Medium
hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
146712

Artist Tani Bunchō painted this image in a mountain pavilion during winter. He inscribed it with two lines of a poem: “The stone cliff of layered rocks is extremely high. Waterfalls tumbling from the skies reverberate in the clouds.” The scholarly figure and attendant carrying his qin (a stringed instrument) are set amid majestically soaring mountains in China. For many people in Japan at the time, the image would call to mind a poem about a waterfall at Mount Lu by Chinese poet Li Bai (701–762). Drive about eight hours west of Shanghai to get to Mount Lu, the mountain range likely alluded to in this painting.

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Credit line
John L. Severance Fund
Provenance
?–1972: (Shogoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1972–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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