Watching a Waterfall

1790

Tani Bunchō

Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1841)

Japanese Art

Watching a Waterfall, 1790. Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1841). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; image: 112.5 x 51.1 cm (44 5/16 x 20 1/8 in.); overall: 214 x 54.5 cm (84 1/4 x 21 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1972.16 Artist Tani Bunchō painted this lush blue-green image in a mountain pavilion during wintertime. He inscribed it with two lines of a poem reading: “the stone cliff of layered rocks is extremely high. Waterfalls tumbling from the skies reverberate in the clouds.” The scholarly figure and attendant carrying his zither set the location among the majestically soaring mountains of China.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Tani Bunchō
Classification: Painting
Formatted Medium: hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Medium: hanging, scroll, ink, color, silk
Dimensions: Image: 112.5 x 51.1 cm (44 5/16 x 20 1/8 in.); Overall: 214 x 54.5 cm (84 1/4 x 21 7/16 in.)
Departments: Japanese Art
Accession Number: 1972.16
Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
Exhibitions: Year in Review: 1972, The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art, Japanese art rotation
Rights Statement: CC0