Horse Race at the Kamo Shrine
early to mid-1600s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Horse Race at the Kamo Shrine, early to mid-1600s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on gilded paper; image: 161 x 362 cm (63 3/8 x 142 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1976.95 The winner is decided by the distance between horses, not by which horse finished first.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on gilded paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 161 x 362 cm (63 3/8 x 142 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1976.95
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review, 1976, Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections, Visions of Landscape: East and West, Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen, Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen, Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art 神道－日本美術における神性の発見, <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121)</em>.The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 10-July 16, 2003)., <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 19-December 24, 2013).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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