Description
Tall grasses and autumn flowers reach out of thick green undergrowth in this depiction of the plain of Musashi, a site famous from classical Japanese poetry. A silver disc, now tarnished, represents the full moon. Flecks of cut-gold foil in the sky evoke the day’s passage into night. Once a wilderness with a vast horizon, Musashi is now densely populated.
Provenance
(Suzanne Mitchell Asian Fine Arts, New York, NY, ?-2000, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-2000); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2000-present (2000-)
Accession Number
2000.4
Medium
Pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold and silver foil on gilded paper
Dimensions
Overall: 170.2 x 346.7 cm (67 x 136 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund