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The low height of this folding screen suggests its use as a partition in a small tearoom. An inscription identifies the scene as the 72-peak Heng mountain range in Hunan, China, associated with Buddhist and Daoist traditions and celebrated in poetry. Special mention in the inscription is made of Mount Furong, one of the peaks in the range. Matsumura Goshun may have drawn inspiration from his teacher, Yosa Buson (与謝蕪村) (1716–1783), whose final work depicted the same mountain range.
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150074
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Seventy-Two Peaks Under the Blue Sky with Mount Furong
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painting
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150074
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painting
title
Seventy-Two Peaks Under the Blue Sky with Mount Furong
description
The low height of this folding screen suggests its use as a partition in a small tearoom. An inscription identifies the scene as the 72-peak Heng mountain range in Hunan, China, associated with Buddhist and Daoist traditions and celebrated in poetry. Special mention in the inscription is made of Mount Furong, one of the peaks in the range. Matsumura Goshun may have drawn inspiration from his teacher, Yosa Buson (与謝蕪村) (1716–1783), whose final work depicted the same mountain range.
date
1785
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en
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Q60474630
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6178
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Painting
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Image: 51.5 x 275.2 cm (20 1/4 x 108 3/8 in.); Overall: 69.6 x 282.4 cm (27 3/8 x 111 3/16 in.); with frame: 72.9 x 285.7 cm (28 11/16 x 112 1/2 in.)
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Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
accession
1980.28
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Eight-panel folding screen; ink with gold and silver foil on paper
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Seventy-Two Peaks Under the Blue Sky with Mount Furong (青天七十二芙蓉図屏風), 1785. Matsumura Goshun (Japanese, 1752–1811). Eight-panel folding screen; ink with gold and silver foil on paper; image: 51.5 x 275.2 cm (20 1/4 x 108 3/8 in.); overall: 69.6 x 282.4 cm (27 3/8 x 111 3/16 in.); with frame: 72.9 x 285.7 cm (28 11/16 x 112 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1980.28
titleInOriginalLanguage
青天七十二芙蓉図屏風
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ASIAN - Folding screen
didYouKnow
By painting on silver and gold foil, Matsumura Goshun created an alluring surface and deep space in this surprisingly spare vista.
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 218, no. 268; Reproduced: p. 210
citation
Cunningham, Michael R. “Byōbu: The Art of the Japanese Screen.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 7 (September 1984): 223–232.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 226–227, fig. 6
citation
Cunningham, Michael R. <em>Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 58–59. cat. no. 26
citation
<em>Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014.
page_number
Reproduced: cat. no. 35, pp. 116–117
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Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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2026-06-17 12:47:03.035000
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150074
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Japanese Art
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ASIAN - Folding screen
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Eight-panel folding screen; ink with gold and silver foil on paper
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male
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