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Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Spring Dancers (Manzai)

Spring Dancers (Manzai)

early to mid-1700s
Location: not on view

Description

Manzai is the Japanese term for wandering comic dancers. The painting depicts one of the traditional pleasures of the spring season.
  • (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
  • 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).
  • {{cite web|title=Spring Dancers (Manzai)|url=false|author=Miyagawa Chōshun|year=early to mid-1700s|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1985.252