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About the Artwork
Kubo Shunman dashed off this loose image of Mt. Fuji viewed in the distance from behind pine trees as a performance painting, or sekiga. He did it on the spot in the company of members of his poetry club. Six of them, including the club's founder Yadoya no Meshimori (Rokujuen, 1753–1830), added kyoka poems, 31-syllable poems like the classical Japanese waka poem in form, but with a heavy emphasis on humor. Shunman jotted down a poem as well, in the bottom right corner of the painting, before signing and sealing it. Each poem takes the painted image as its point of departure.
Inscriptions
Signed: painted by Shunman and others (Shunman narabi utsu [su]) Sealed: Shunman
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)
- Date
- late 1700s-early 1800s
- Medium
- hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Painting only: 90 x 30.8 cm (35 7/16 x 12 1/8 in.); Including mounting: 183.5 x 49.5 cm (72 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Kelvin Smith Fund
- Accession no.
- 1995.18
More by Kubo Shunman 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-00010196
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