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Sketch Copy of Natural Disasters, from the Seven Fortunes and Misfortunes
after 1773
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Sketch Copy of Natural Disasters, from the Seven Fortunes and Misfortunes, after 1773. Handscroll; ink and color on paper; 34 x 1714.5 cm (13 3/8 x 675 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1993.132 This unmounted handscroll is a copy of the first of a three-scroll set painted by Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795) for Buddhist monk Yujō (1723–1773). It depicts people's unfortunate encounters with forces of nature from wind to beasts. Ōkyo's realistic, contemporary imagery was meant to evoke a sense of recognition and empathy in viewers, shocking them into avoidance of possible punishments. Notations that appear throughout the scroll indicate colors and other details of the original painting.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- handscroll; ink and color on paper
- Medium
- handscroll, ink, color, paper
- Dimensions
- 34 x 1714.5 cm (13 3/8 x 675 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed: Gettcho; dated 1773
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1993.132
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan, Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120); October 26, 2003 - March 11, 2004., Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236); December 24, 2013 - July 21, 2014.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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