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Japanese reading stands often incorporate motifs associated with seasonal poetry. The combination of long, narrow, miscanthus grass, bush clover with its small, ovoid leaves, and chrysanthemum with its many-petaled blossoms is classic autumnal imagery. One lacquer technique featured prominently on the stand is sprinkled gold in low relief (<em>hiramaki-e</em>). Pear-skin ground design (<em>nashiji-e</em>) is used for the slopes of the ground and in some of the leaves.
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148696
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Reading Stand with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses
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148696
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Reading Stand with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses
description
Japanese reading stands often incorporate motifs associated with seasonal poetry. The combination of long, narrow, miscanthus grass, bush clover with its small, ovoid leaves, and chrysanthemum with its many-petaled blossoms is classic autumnal imagery. One lacquer technique featured prominently on the stand is sprinkled gold in low relief (<em>hiramaki-e</em>). Pear-skin ground design (<em>nashiji-e</em>) is used for the slopes of the ground and in some of the leaves.
date
early 1600s
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language
en
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Q79929069
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Lacquer
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Overall: 53.3 x 30.5 x 45.7 cm (21 x 12 x 18 in.)
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Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615)
accession
1976.15
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Wood with lacquer, sprinkled gold powder (maki-e), and metal fittings
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Reading Stand with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses (菊秋草蒔絵書見台), early 1600s. Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615). Wood with lacquer, sprinkled gold powder (maki-e), and metal fittings; overall: 53.3 x 30.5 x 45.7 cm (21 x 12 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1976.15
titleInOriginalLanguage
菊秋草蒔絵書見台
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Japanese Art
didYouKnow
Dew on chrysanthemum is seasonal imagery symbolizing the approach of winter.
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1976.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 64, no. 2 (February 1977): 39–79.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 160, pp. 69 and 79
citation
Yoshimura Motoo 吉村元雄. <em>Kōdaiji makie </em>高台寺蒔絵. [Kyōto-shi]: Kyoto National Museum 京都国立博物館, 1971.
citation
Cunningham, Michael R. <em>The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th-Century Art in Japan</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1991.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 118
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.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 81
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Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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2026-05-29 07:38:10.355000
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148696
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Wood with lacquer, sprinkled gold powder (maki-e), and metal fittings
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