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The Beach at Sumiyoshi from the Tales of Ise
Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570–c. 1640)
c. 1634
- Medium
- Poetry sheet mounted as an album leaf; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.5 x 20.9 cm (9 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.); Overall: 40.6 x 33.2 x 1.6 cm (16 x 13 1/16 x 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The poem written on the painting comes from The Tales of Ise, a 10th-century poetic narrative of love:
In autumn the wild geese cry And chrysanthemums are in flower, Yet how pleasant to dwell By the sea in spring On the Beach of Sumiyoshi.
