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Find the small riders crossing the snowy shore near the bridge at the bottom, then the boats on the grey water and the inscriptions across the sky.
This leaf comes from Tani Bunchō’s set of the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang. The theme began in Chinese poems and paintings and traveled to Korea and Japan; the views picture the misty banks of the Xiang River in southern China, whose shifting scenery was likened to changing moods. Bunchō painted the album in 1788, and its leaves were later remounted as hanging scrolls; the Cleveland Museum of Art owns four of the eight.
album leaf remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper · Image: 29.5 x 49 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Evening Snow Blending River and Sky, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
- Artist
- Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1841)
- Date
- 1788
- Medium
- album leaf remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 29.5 x 49 cm (11 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.); Overall: 129 x 67 cm (50 13/16 x 26 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1763–1841
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.