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Orchid Pavilion Gathering
Soga Shōhaku1777
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This painting depicts a famous gathering that took place in China in AD 353 to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, also known as the Double Third Festival, as it takes place on the third day of the third lunar month. The host invited everyone to the Orchid Pavilion to compose poetry and drink wine. Guests floated wine cups down a nearby creek, and where they landed, people had to drink the wine and compose a poem.
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- Title: Orchid Pavilion Gathering
- Creator: Soga Shōhaku (Japanese, 1730-1781)
- Date Created: 1777
- Physical Dimensions: Painting: 122.7 x 55.7 cm (48 5/16 x 21 15/16 in.); Mounted: 197.4 x 58.8 cm (77 11/16 x 23 1/8 in.)
- Provenance: (Toyobi, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.53
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink on silk
- Inscriptions: Inscribed upper right: Sixth year of An'ei (1777) mid-winter, Soga Shohaku Seal: Dasokken Shohaku Seal: Unread
- Fun Fact: The Buddhist temple Bairinji in Kurume City, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, own compositions by the same artist on the same theme.
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
- Accession Number: 1979.53
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