Irises
1700s
- Medium
- pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on gilded paper
- Dimensions
- 154.4 × 360.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-112579
The subject of this painting comes from a 10th-century text. It tells of a young nobleman’s journey into the lonely countryside, far from the capital city of Heian-kyō (Kyoto). There he came upon a small stream, the banks of which were covered with blooming irises, on which the artist has chosen to focus our attention. While viewing the beautiful flowers the nobleman composed a poem:I have a beloved wife, Familiar as the skirt of a well-worn robe, And so this distant journeying Fills my heart with grief.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Norweb Foundation, 1954.603
Registry history
- 1700s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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