Famous Views of Ōmi (1660s–90s): Art, History and Details

Famous Views of Ōmi (1660s–90s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Ōmi is an area around Lake Biwa near Kyoto. The Shinto shrine Hiyoshi Taisha and the Buddhist temple Ishiyamadera are in the upper right and upper left of the composition, respectively. At center is the pilgrimage route and people in the town before the temple gates. Harvested rice fields to the right and flowering cherry blossom trees at left show seasonal change from winter to spring.

Object facts

• Title: Famous Views of Ōmi
• Date: 1660s–90s
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper
• Dimensions: Image: 152.8 x 344.1 cm (60 3/16 x 135 1/2 in.); Overall: 165.8 x 357.6 cm (65 1/4 x 140 13/16 in.); Closed: 170 x 11.7 x 61.6 cm (66 15/16 x 4 5/8 x 24 1/4 in.); Panel: 165.8 x 59.6 cm (65 1/4 x 23 7/16 in.); with frame: 169.8 x 361.6 cm (66 7/8 x 142 3/8 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1983.19.2

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cunningham, Michael R. “Byōbu: The Art of the Japanese Screen.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 7 (September 1984): 223–232.
• Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華: 特别展: クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
• Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.

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