The Bird's Nest Patriarch
early to mid-1600s
Tawaraya Sōtatsu
Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570-c. 1640)
Japanese Art
The Bird's Nest Patriarch, early to mid-1600s. Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570-c. 1640). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; image: 95.8 x 38.7 cm (37 11/16 x 15 1/4 in.); overall: 187.3 x 50.8 cm (73 3/4 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1958.289 This painting is based on the 1602 illustrated publication Marvelous Traces of Immortals and Buddhas (Chinese: Xianfo qizong).
- Maker/Artist
- Tawaraya Sōtatsu
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 95.8 x 38.7 cm (37 11/16 x 15 1/4 in.); Overall: 187.3 x 50.8 cm (73 3/4 x 20 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed at the lower left of the scroll and sealed "Inen" in red circular form.
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1958.289
- Credit Line
- Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
- Exhibitions
- Japanese Decorative Style, Tea Taste in Japanese Art, Rimpa, Rin-pa, Rimpa Painting, Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art, Rimpa, Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sotatsu: Making Waves, Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235, <em>Tea taste in Japanese art</em>. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (1963)., <em>Masterpieces of Japanese Art</em>. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas (October 4-November 30, 1969).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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