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Spring Dancers (Manzai)
Miyagawa Chōshun (Japanese, 1683–1753)
early to mid-1700s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Painting only: 84.1 x 31.4 cm (33 1/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Manzai is the Japanese term for wandering comic dancers. The painting depicts one of the traditional pleasures of the spring season.
