Calligraphy

Inscriptions

Artist's signature and red square seal on the left-hand page

?–1972: (Kuniyoshi Miura, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1972–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Artist: Tanomura Chikuden (Japanese, 1777–1835)
Date: early 1800s
Medium: double-leaf from a pair of albums; ink on silk
Dimensions: Sheet: 25.2 x 18.3 cm (9 15/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: Painting
Department: Japanese Art
Credit line: Gift of Mary B. Lee, C. Bingham Blossom, Dudley S. Blossom III, Laurel B. Kovacik, and Elizabeth B. Blossom, in memory of Elizabeth B. Blossom
Accession no.: 1972.117.1.13

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Tanomura Chikuden
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Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00016560

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.