Crossing at Sano
c. 1600–1640
- Medium
- Hanging scroll mounted as a single-panel screen; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 161.7 × 139.2 × 46.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-114269
Like many paintings from the Sōtatsu studio, a Kyoto-based atelier that ran the shop Tawaraya, this one is done in ink, mineral colors, and gold, and is formally reminiscent of 12th- and 13th-century paintings associated with the Japanese aristocracy. It depicts a man on horseback with two attendants crossing a bridge that once spanned the Kino River in Sano in eastern Wakayama Prefecture. The composition was inspired by a poem by Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) that translates as follows: I stop my horse, but there is no shelter as I brush off my sleeves at Sano Crossing in the evening snow.
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1949.554
Registry history
- c. 1600–1640 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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