Crossing at Sano
1620
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1620
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Crossing at Sano is a 1620 unspecified by Tawaraya Sōtatsu, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a man on horseback with two attendants crossing a bridge. The bridge is old and the scene is peaceful. The man is dressed in traditional Japanese clothes and the attendants are helping him. The artist was inspired by a poem when creating this work. You can learn more about this style by looking at the work of Tawaraya Sōtatsu.
Like many paintings from the Sōtatsu studio, a Kyoto-based atelier that ran the shop Tawaraya, this one is done in ink, mineral colors, and gold, and is formally reminiscent of 12th- and 13th-century paintings associated with the Japanese aristocracy. It depicts a man on horseback with two attendants crossing a bridge that once spanned the Kino River in Sano in eastern Wakayama Prefecture. The composition was inspired by a poem by Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) that translates as follows: I stop my horse, but there is no shelter as I brush off my sleeves at Sano Crossing in the evening snow.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Tawaraya Sōtatsu (俵屋 宗達; c. 1570 – c. 1640) was a Japanese furniture designer and painter of the Rinpa school. Sōtatsu is best known for his decorations of calligraphic works by his partner Hon'ami Kōetsu (1558–1637),…
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