Literary Gathering in the Orchid Pavilion

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Literary Gathering in the Orchid Pavilion

Maruyama ŌkyoLinkedCulture matchlcp-26e4eefa7c04

Date
late 1700s
Medium
Six-panel folding screen; ink and slight color on paper
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
148864

A cheerful gathering of poets was one the most popular themes of East Asian literati paintings. Literary Gathering in the Orchid Pavilion depicts a poets’ party hosted in AD 353 by the famous Chinese calligrapher Wang Xizhi to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, observed annually on the third day of the third month. Wang invited 41 scholar-poets to compose poetry and drink while seated along the bank of a winding rivulet. This screen would have appeared on the left and shows preparations for the gathering. The lost right screen is assumed to have depicted the poets sitting along the stream.

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John L. Severance Fund
Provenance
?–1977: (Joe Brotherton [1918–2012], San Francisco, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1977–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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