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Follow the pale stream as it winds out of the mist, then look up at the hills for the small trees in white blossom.
The right scroll of the triptych shows a spring day: misty hills above a stream that winds across the foreground. Like its partner, it holds no figures; the story stays in the central scroll. The Cleveland Museum of Art ranks Yukinobu among Japan’s earliest and most gifted women painters, and notes that she preferred Japanese subjects and techniques, picturing the landscape and past of her own country.
One of a triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk · Painting only: 95 x 41 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Minamoto no Nakakuni Visits Lady Kogō
- Artist
- Kiyohara Yukinobu (Japanese, 1643–1682)
- Date
- late 1600s
- Medium
- One of a triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Painting only: 95 x 41 cm (37 3/8 x 16 1/8 in.); Including mounting: 180 x 59.4 cm (70 7/8 x 23 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Harley C. Lee and Elizabeth K. Lee
- 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.