Unidentified Japanese Artist
Six-Panel Screen with New Year’s Scene
1700-1799
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Unidentified Japanese Artist
Six-Panel Screen with New Year’s Scene
1700-1799
Physical Qualities
Ink and color with gofun and gold leaf on paper, Framed: 17 7/8 x 34 3/8 in. (45.4 x 87.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dr. W. Lehman Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland
Object Number
2011.363
This New Year’s street scene includes figures celebrating the holiday with traditional decorations, activities, and toys. Bamboo and pine tied together symbolize strength and longevity. Two dancers at the upper left (one holding a drum and the other a fan) model their steps on a New Year’s festival from the Heian period (794–1185), an era revered for its cultural, artistic, and political flourishing in Japanese history.
A group of girls enjoys a game of battledore and shuttlecock (played with paddles and a feathered birdie similar to badminton). By keeping the shuttlecock airborne as long as possible, the players gain protection against mosquitoes in the coming year.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2011; Dr. William Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland
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Anne-Marie Christin, "Japanese Screens," NY and London: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2021.
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Janice Katz, "Hidden Behind History: Revealing Moments in the Evolution of Japanese Folding Screens," in Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2009).
Sŭng-hye Sŏn, The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011, cat. no. 51, ill.
Michael R. Cunningham, Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001, cat. 26, pp. 58-59 and cat. no. 42 and 44, pp. 77-78, ill.
Sandra Grantham, Painting in Japan, Victoria and Albert Conservation Journal, July 1997, Issue 24. [http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/conservation-journal/issue-24/painting-in-japan/]
Robert D. Jacobsen, The Art of Japanese Screen Painting (Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1984).
Janice Katz, "Hidden Behind History: Revealing Moments in the Evolution of Japanese Folding Screens," in Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2009).
Sŭng-hye Sŏn, The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011, cat. no. 51, ill.
Artist
Unidentified Japanese Artist
2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00
