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Susuki Grass
c. 1525
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Susuki grass has a seasonal association with autumn in the Japanese visual and literary tradition. It is one of the “Seven Flowers of Autumn,” along with bush clover, arrowroot, pink, patrinia, mistflower, and bellflower. This composition immerses the beholder in a field of grasses and golden bands of mist. The design may have served as a backdrop for poems brushed in calligraphy on decorated papers and attached to the surface of the screens.
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Details
- Title: Susuki Grass
- Date Created: c. 1525
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 150.4 x 349.2 cm (59 3/16 x 137 1/2 in.); Overall: 163.6 x 362.4 cm (64 7/16 x 142 11/16 in.); with frame: 166.8 x 365.6 cm (65 11/16 x 143 15/16 in.); Panorama: 163.6 x 60.4 cm (64 7/16 x 23 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: (Eastern Fine Arts, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.43.2
- Medium: One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Original Title: 芒野図屏風
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Muromachi period (1392-1573)
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
- Accession Number: 1984.43.2
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