Koto from the series The Six Arts in Fashionable Guise
c. 1793–96
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.6 × 25 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-195238
Chinese classical education consisted of the Six Arts: performing rites, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics. The Chinese qin, a stringed musical instrument in the zither family, customarily symbolizes the art of music. In this print a similar Japanese instrument, the koto, replaces the qin. The fashionable Japanese entertainer playing it stands in for an accomplished Chinese scholar.
Provenance
Kelvin Smith, 1985.301
Registry history
- c. 1793–96 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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