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Source Description
This painting depicts humanlike figures with antennae engaged in a festival procession. They transport a gourd like a float, with two teams pulling ropes in front, and others maneuvering it with poles from behind. They are accompanied by flutes and drums, urged on by a dancer holding a fan and a branch. The inscription is attributed to the monk-painter Motsurin Jōtō (Bokusai), well known in Japan as a disciple of Ikkyū Sōjun and an accomplished portrait artist.
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Document identity
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154040
label
Festival of Insects
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painting
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Source metadata
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154040
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painting
title
Festival of Insects
description
This painting depicts humanlike figures with antennae engaged in a festival procession. They transport a gourd like a float, with two teams pulling ropes in front, and others maneuvering it with poles from behind. They are accompanied by flutes and drums, urged on by a dancer holding a fan and a branch. The inscription is attributed to the monk-painter Motsurin Jōtō (Bokusai), well known in Japan as a disciple of Ikkyū Sōjun and an accomplished portrait artist.
date
c. 1615–1868
citation
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language
en
wikidata
Q60476276
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283702
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Painting
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Image: 30.7 x 45 cm (12 1/16 x 17 11/16 in.); Overall: 122.5 x 55.9 cm (48 1/4 x 22 in.)
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Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
accession
1988.16
Source extras
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Hanging scroll; ink on paper
tombstone
Festival of Insects, c. 1615–1868. After Motsurin Jōtō (Japanese, d. 1492). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; image: 30.7 x 45 cm (12 1/16 x 17 11/16 in.); overall: 122.5 x 55.9 cm (48 1/4 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1988.16
collection
ASIAN - Hanging scroll
citations
citation
Itō Heizandō 伊藤平山堂 and Tōkyō Bijutsu Kurabu 東京美術俱樂部 [and 14 others]. <em>Setta-ke zōhin tenkan mokuroku</em> 說田家藏品展觀目錄 . Tōkyō: Tōkyō Bijutsu Kurabu, 1932.
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Comparanda
citation
“The Year in Review for 1988.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30–75.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 74, no. 198; Reproduced: Back cover
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
Reproduced: cat. no. 77, p. 116
citation
Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. <em>Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 24, p. 79
citation
Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [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. 24, p. 79
creditline
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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2026-05-29 07:57:58.510000
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154040
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Japanese Art
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ASIAN - Hanging scroll
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Hanging scroll; ink on paper
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male
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