God of Thunder (Raijin)
mid-1600s
- Medium
- six-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 150.4 × 343 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-114748
Such depictions of the God of Thunder originated in Buddhist art. Here, the image was painted on paper covered with gold dust, a technique often found in paintings by Tawaraya Sotatsu or of the Sotatsu school. This gold technique and the "Inen" seal here suggest that the anonymous painter of this screen was probably associated with the Sotatsu workshop. The artist used a prototype borrowed from earlier Japanese narrative painting—rather than mechanically reproducing Sotatsu’s image—and created a bold, innovative image that served the world of play and leisure in early Edo Japan. The theme of …
Provenance
and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 2004.86
Registry history
- mid-1600s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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