Ivy Lane (1700s): Art, History and Details

Ivy Lane (1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Fukae Roshū (Japanese, 1699–1757).

The work and its context

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

In an episode from the tenth-century literary classic The Tales of Ise, a courtier happens upon a Buddhist priest on an ivy-covered pass on Mount Utsu, a Japanese homonym for “Melancholy Mountain.” He entrusts the priest with a letter to a former lover in the capital whom he laments he can no longer see, even in dreams. The Tales of Ise features poems set within a basic narrative of the journeys of a courtier in exile.

Object facts

• Title: Ivy Lane
• Date: 1700s
• Creator attribution: Fukae Roshū (Japanese, 1699–1757)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: six-panel folding screen; ink and color on gilded paper
• Dimensions: Image: 133.1 x 267.6 cm (52 3/8 x 105 3/8 in.); Overall: 136.5 x 271 cm (53 3/4 x 106 11/16 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1954.127

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman. "Roshū's 'Utsunoyama: The Pass through the Mountains.'" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 42, no. 10 (December 1955): 201–223.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• The Human Image: A Commemorative Catalogue for the Opening of Cullinan Hall, October 10 Through November 23, 1958. Houston, Tex: Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, 1958.

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