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Four Motifs from the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
by Tani Bunchō
Also known as: Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers
About the Artwork
These paintings were part of a set of album leaves representing the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme originating in Chinese poetry and painting that spread to both Korea and Japan. Southern China’s Xiao-Xiang area, where the mist-covered banks of the Xiang River created a complex landscape shifting like the moods and minds of people, captured the imaginations of generations of painters and calligraphers. Inscriptions on these works suggest that they were possibly ordered by newly prominent Japanese Confucian scholars.
Provenance
?–1980: (Katsuhiro Kobayashi, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1980–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011). To the River's South in Japanese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 2023-June 2, 2024).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1841)
- Date
- 1788
- Medium
- Four album leaves from a set of eight remounted as hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Each painting: 29.5 x 49 cm (11 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.); Each mounted: 129 x 67 cm (50 13/16 x 26 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Accession no.
- 1980.188
More by Tani Bunchō 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-00009983
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