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Emperor Minghuang Teaching Yang Gueifei to Play the Flute
Choryusai (Japanese)
late 1400s–early 1500s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 188 x 63.5 cm (74 x 25 in.); Painting only: 91 x 45.2 cm (35 13/16 x 17 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
- 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
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Minghuang, a prominent emperor of Tang (618-906) China and his consort, Yang Gueifei, have inspired many legends, paintings, and poetry in later Chinese culture. Through the study of Chinese literature and the collecting of Chinese paintings, tales of their lives and romance became well-known in Muromachi Japan.
