Cleveland Museum of Art
Chinese Literatus Traveling to a Mountain Temple
Kano HidemasaLinkedCulture matchlcp-1b429c7f9932
- Date
- late 1500s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 79588
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This painting bears the seal of Kano Hidemasa, believed to be the son of Kano Hideyori (active mid- to late 1500s) of the important and prolific Kano family of painters. It features a traveler and his servant in a Chinese setting. The two are on their way to a temple up the stairs, climbing the steep slope of the mountain ahead of them. The traveler, who wears clerical garb, has paused to admire and listen to the sound of a nearby waterfall. The painting is a charming interpretation of a scene that might be found in Song dynasty album leaves imported to Japan.
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- Credit line
- Gift from the Collection of George Gund III
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