Cleveland Museum of Art
Orchid Pavilion Gathering
Soga ShōhakuLinkedCulture matchlcp-21117ae265d6
- Date
- 1777
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on silk
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 149661
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This painting depicts a famous gathering that took place in China in AD 353 to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, also known as the Double Third Festival, as it takes place on the third day of the third lunar month. The host invited everyone to the Orchid Pavilion to compose poetry and drink wine. Guests floated wine cups down a nearby creek, and where they landed, people had to drink the wine and compose a poem. The Buddhist temple Bairinji in Kurume City, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, own compositions by the same artist on the same theme.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1979: (Toyobi, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1979–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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