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Crossing at Sano
Tawaraya Sōtatsuc. 1600-1640
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Like many paintings from the Sōtatsu studio, a Kyoto-based atelier that ran the shop Tawaraya, this one is done in ink, mineral colors, and gold, and is formally reminiscent of 12th- and 13th-century paintings associated with the Japanese aristocracy. It depicts a man on horseback with two attendants crossing a bridge that once spanned the Kino River in Sano in eastern Wakayama Prefecture. The composition was inspired by a poem by Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) that translates as follows:
I stop my horse, but there is no shelter
as I brush off my sleeves
at Sano Crossing
in the evening snow.
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- Title: Crossing at Sano
- Creator: Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570-c. 1640)
- Date Created: c. 1600-1640
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 161.7 x 139.2 x 46.3 cm (63 11/16 x 54 13/16 x 18 1/4 in.); Diameter of base: 46.3 cm (18 1/4 in.); Painting only: 125.9 x 121.4 cm (49 9/16 x 47 13/16 in.); with frame: 151.9 x 130.1 x 3.2 cm (59 13/16 x 51 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: (Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.554
- Medium: Hanging scroll mounted as a single-panel screen; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Original Title: 佐野の渡り図衝立
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
- Accession Number: 1949.554
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