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The calligrapher and craftsman Hon’ami Kōetsu frequently collaborated with Tawaraya Sōtatsu, a painter who ran a studio that produced fans and screens. Sōtatsu’s work featured abstracted and flattened shapes, fields of color and gold, and asymmetry. In particular, motifs that appeared in small scale, such as flora and fauna, in early decorated Japanese papers were painted in a larger scale—blown up as if seen under a magnifying glass. For this handscroll, Kōetsu brushed poems from the autumn section of a poetry anthology onto silk with a landscape of pines in gold and silver likely painted by Sōtatsu.
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147044
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Selections from the Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Kokin wakashū) with Design of Pines Along the Shore
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Selections from the Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Kokin wakashū) with Design of Pines Along the Shore
description
The calligrapher and craftsman Hon’ami Kōetsu frequently collaborated with Tawaraya Sōtatsu, a painter who ran a studio that produced fans and screens. Sōtatsu’s work featured abstracted and flattened shapes, fields of color and gold, and asymmetry. In particular, motifs that appeared in small scale, such as flora and fauna, in early decorated Japanese papers were painted in a larger scale—blown up as if seen under a magnifying glass. For this handscroll, Kōetsu brushed poems from the autumn section of a poetry anthology onto silk with a landscape of pines in gold and silver likely painted by Sōtatsu.
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1600s
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en
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Q60472338
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Calligraphy
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Average: 32.7 x 549 cm (12 7/8 x 216 1/8 in.)
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Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615) to Edo period (1615-1858)
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1972.67
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handscroll; ink on silk with gold and silver
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Selections from the Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Kokin wakashū) with Design of Pines Along the Shore (浜松下絵古今集和歌巻), 1600s. Hon'ami Kōetsu (Japanese, 1558–1637), attributed to Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570–c. 1640). Handscroll; ink on silk with gold and silver; average: 32.7 x 549 cm (12 7/8 x 216 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1972.67
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浜松下絵古今集和歌巻
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ASIAN - Handscroll
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 383
citation
Lee, Sherman E, Ursula Korneitchouk, Michael R Cunningham, Ursula Korneitchouk, Cleveland Museum of Art, Japan House Gallery, Japan Society (New York, N.Y.), and Japan House Gallery. <em>One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue</em>. New York: Japan Society, 1981.
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Mentioned and reproduced: P. 79, no. 45
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Fischer, Felice and Edwin A. Cranston. <em>The Arts of Honʼami Kōetsu: Japanese Renaissance Master</em>. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000.
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cat. no. 83, p. 129
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Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 85
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Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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2026-05-29 07:32:57.327000
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147044
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Japanese Art
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ASIAN - Handscroll
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handscroll; ink on silk with gold and silver
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