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Source Description
This jar features a design of a monkey-like animal ladling sake into his mouth from a vessel bobbing in waves, along with others trying on sandals and crossing a river. In the 1300s, Chinese literature was a powerful source of inspiration for artistic practice in Japan, and this scene was inspired by the exploits of the mythical <em>xingxing,</em> a beast of ancient Chinese lore for whom people left straw sandals and wine. The xingxing would then recite the names of the ancestors of those who had left them the gifts.
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152032
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Jar with Scenes of Frolicking Xingxing
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152032
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Jar with Scenes of Frolicking Xingxing
description
This jar features a design of a monkey-like animal ladling sake into his mouth from a vessel bobbing in waves, along with others trying on sandals and crossing a river. In the 1300s, Chinese literature was a powerful source of inspiration for artistic practice in Japan, and this scene was inspired by the exploits of the mythical <em>xingxing,</em> a beast of ancient Chinese lore for whom people left straw sandals and wine. The xingxing would then recite the names of the ancestors of those who had left them the gifts.
date
1302
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CC0
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en
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Q79936175
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Lacquer
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dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 47.2 cm (18 9/16 in.); Overall: 49.4 cm (19 7/16 in.)
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Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333)
accession
1984.8
Source extras
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Zelkova wood, covered with hemp cloth and colored lacquer, and bronze-plated wood fittings
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Jar with Scenes of Frolicking Xingxing (猩々戯画漆絵壺), 1302. Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333). Zelkova wood, covered with hemp cloth and colored lacquer, and bronze-plated wood fittings; diameter: 47.2 cm (18 9/16 in.); overall: 49.4 cm (19 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1984.8
titleInOriginalLanguage
猩々戯画漆絵壺
collection
Japanese Art
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Dated 1302
didYouKnow
To make this vessel, a wooden form was covered with successive layers of lacquer, the clear sap of the highly toxic <em>Rhus</em> <em>verniciflua</em> tree.
citations
citation
Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1984.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163–207.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 174; Mentioned: p. 206, no. 165
citation
Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三, Takashi Hamada 山根有三, et al. <em>Zaigai bijutsu </em>[在外美術 = Selections of Japanese Art from Western Collections]. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1994.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 228 and 236, no. 143–144
citation
Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 196–197
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.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 94–95, cat. no. 62
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: p. 48
citation
Freeman, J. "Just One Thing After Another." <em>Impressions: Official Publication of the Ukiyo-E Society of America </em>39, pt. 1 (2018): 67-129.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 77, fig. 5
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Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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2026-05-29 07:51:47.513000
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152032
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Zelkova wood, covered with hemp cloth and colored lacquer, and bronze-plated wood fittings
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