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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.
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151344
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Famous Views of Ōmi
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painting
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151344
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painting
title
Famous Views of Ōmi
description
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.
date
1660s–90s
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60475201
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Painting
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1
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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.)
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Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
accession
1983.19.2
Source extras
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One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper
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Famous Views of Ōmi (近江名所図絵), 1660s–90s. Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1983.19.2
titleInOriginalLanguage
近江名所図絵
collection
ASIAN - Folding screen
formerAccessionNumbers
1983.20
citations
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: p. 224, fig. 3, pl. i; Reproduced: pp. 224, 228
citation
<em>Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara </em>[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.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 134–135, cat. no. 88
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. 30–31
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. 114–115
citation
McKelway, Matthew P. "Views of Lake Biwa." In <em>Japanese Art: Critical and Primary Sources. </em>Morgan Pitelka, ed., 57-63. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 57–63
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 07:49:03.274000
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151344
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Japanese Art
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ASIAN - Folding screen
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One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper
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