Spring Dancers (Manzai)

Description

Manzai is the Japanese term for wandering comic dancers. The painting depicts one of the traditional pleasures of the spring season.

Provenance

(Takashi Yanagi, Kyoto, Japan, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith); The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art (?–1985); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1985–)

Spring Dancers (Manzai)

Miyagawa Chōshun

early to mid-1700s

Accession Number

1985.252

Medium

hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Painting only: 84.1 x 31.4 cm (33 1/8 x 12 3/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith

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