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Source Description
The kidney-shaped water cooler, <em>yuzamashi</em>, has a scene of a man gazing at a full moon in a dramatic mountain-scape stretching before a large compound in the woods. Another man, hunched over and carrying a heavy parcel tied to a pole over his shoulder, struggles to make his way up a hill to the site. The cooler also has a pair of applied <em>nyoi </em>staff-head forms for resting the tips of one’s thumb and index finger.
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Document identity
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519480
label
Water Cooler from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape
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object
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Source metadata
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519480
contentType
object
title
Water Cooler from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape
description
The kidney-shaped water cooler, <em>yuzamashi</em>, has a scene of a man gazing at a full moon in a dramatic mountain-scape stretching before a large compound in the woods. Another man, hunched over and carrying a heavy parcel tied to a pole over his shoulder, struggles to make his way up a hill to the site. The cooler also has a pair of applied <em>nyoi </em>staff-head forms for resting the tips of one’s thumb and index finger.
date
1893–1914
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q117706864
creators
299428
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
5.4 x 11.9 x 7.4 cm (2 1/8 x 4 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
cul
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
accession
2022.171.2
Source extras
tec
Porcelain with underglaze blue
tombstone
Water Cooler from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with underglaze blue; 5.4 x 11.9 x 7.4 cm (2 1/8 x 4 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.171.2
collection
Japanese Art
didYouKnow
This is a <em>yuzamashi</em>, a container used to cool boiled water to just the right temperature for the best flavor when steeping.
citations
citation
Vilbar, Sinead. "Colors of Kyoto: Modern ceramics of Japan.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>63, no. 2 (2023): 14–17.
page_number
Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 14
citation
Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. <em>Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 27, pp. 100–101
citation
Goodall, Hollis. "Seifū Yohei III: Master of Finesse." <em>Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America</em> 45, part 2 (2024): 178-193.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 186; Reproduced: p. 187, fig. 5
creditline
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
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2026-05-29 09:06:13.438000
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519480
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Porcelain with underglaze blue
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male
Asian (from 1900 to present)
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