The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 27, 2024
Evening Snow at Asuka Hill, from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo
c. 1837–38
Location: not on view
Description
This print series was first privately produced for the Taihaidō poetry club led by a “wild” or comic verse (kyōka) poet with the humorous pen name Taihaidō Donshō (or Nomimasu), which translates to “Hall of the Large Cup, Swallow a Liter (or Drink).” The initial print had three poems by members of the club at the top. This print, released as part of a public set of the series later on, has but a single poem, not featured in the original, which reads:The snow falling heavily in the dusk not only covers up signs
that warn against breaking branches of the cherry trees on Asuka Hill,
but breaks down the branches, as well.
It is signed Shōyōan Kōjin (or Takahito), which means “Hermitage of Pine and Cherry, High Person.”
- ?-1940James Parmelee [1855-1931], Cleveland, OH and Washington D.C., bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art1940-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 2-July 9, 2018).Japanese Prints and Ceramics from The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, and The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. College of Wooster, Wooster, OH (October 9-November 1, 1981).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1940.983