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Spring Dancers (Manzai)
About the Artwork
Manzai is the Japanese term for wandering comic dancers. The painting depicts one of the traditional pleasures of the spring season.
Inscriptions
Artist's signature and gourd-shaped seal lower right corner.
Provenance
(Takashi Yanagi, Kyoto, Japan, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith) ?–1985: 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
Exhibition history
A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Miyagawa Chōshun (Japanese, 1683–1753)
- Date
- early to mid-1700s
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Credit line
- The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Accession no.
- 1985.252
More by Miyagawa Choshun in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009824
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