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Find the pale blue poem slip hanging from the maple branch, then follow the falling red leaves down to the stream that curves across the bottom.
Takao, in the mountains north of Kyoto, draws many visitors for its autumn and spring foliage. Kiyohara Yukinobu sets this scene in autumn, and the Cleveland Museum of Art suggests that the poem slip tied to the maple marks the passing of a love affair. She signed at lower right as the woman Yukinobu of the Kiyohara family and added an octagonal red seal that also names her as a woman.
hanging scroll; ink and color on silk · Painting only: 89.7 x 32.7 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Autumn in Takao
- Artist
- Kiyohara Yukinobu (Japanese, 1643–1682)
- Date
- late 1600s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Painting only: 89.7 x 32.7 cm (35 5/16 x 12 7/8 in.); Including mounting: 170.2 x 49.6 cm (67 x 19 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Takashi Yanagi
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1643–1682
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.