Cleveland Museum of Art

Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

Sesshū Tōyō

Date

1460s–1550s

Medium

Hanging scroll from a set of eight; ink and color on silk

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This painting and CMA 2015.589 belong to a group that was likely mounted as a pair of four-panel folding screens focusing on the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme centered on an area in southern China. This one represents the motif “Sunset Glow Over a Fishing Village.” Both emulate the style of Chinese painter Li Tang (about 1050–after 1130). Some scholars believe the paintings are the work of Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506), the only Japanese painter of his day to have traveled to China. This painting incited robust scholarly debate in both Japan and the United States about its date.

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