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Kano Motonobu (Japanese, c. 1476–1559)
calligraphy by Gesshū Jukei (Japanese, 1470–1533)
mid-1500s
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Mounted: 104.7 x 48.9 cm (41 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Gift from the Collection of George Gund III
- 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 large red tripod-shaped seal on this painting is that of Kano Motonobu, head of the Kano school atelier in Kyoto that served the shogun. Gesshū Jukei, a longtime resident of the Zen temple Kenninji in Kyoto, inscribed the poem. The two are known to have worked together on at least one other occasion. The poem describes an intimate meeting of dear friends, a suitable theme for a work that was likely given as a gift to an esteemed associate, perhaps weary of the politics of life in the capital.
In either fine weather or during the rainy season the mountain’s color is pale.
A friend visits, rowing his boat while reciting a poem.
Tonight we’ll drink together at the inn on the river.
Across, on the other side of the river is a house with people living in it, but there is nothing to drink there.
