| schema:description 10 | "id: 146712" |
| schema:description | "wall_description: During the Edo period, Japanese literati artists such as Tani Buncho loved depicting the theme of Gazing at the Waterfall by painting a blue and green landscape in the format of a hanging scroll. <em>Watching a Waterfall</em> is one of his masterpieces, evoking poetic sensations through his use of color and dramatic composition. Tani inscribed the painting with two lines of a seven-word poem: "The stone cliff layered with rocks is extremely high. Falling waterfalls in the sky reverberate the cloud."...(more)" |
| schema:description | "technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on silk" |
| schema:description | "creditline: John L. Severance Fund" |
| schema:description | "collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll" |
| schema:description | "tombstone: Watching a Waterfall, 1790. Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763-1841). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; image: 112.5 x 51.1 cm (44 5/16 x 20 1/8 in.); overall: 214 x 54.5 cm (84 1/4 x 21 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1972.16...(more)" |
| schema:description | "type: Painting" |
| schema:description | "digital_description: Artist Tani Bunchō painted this lush blue-green image in a mountain pavilion during wintertime. He inscribed it with two lines of a poem reading: “the stone cliff of layered rocks is extremely high. Waterfalls tumbling from the skies reverberate in the clouds.” The scholarly figure and attendant carrying his zither set the location among the majestically soaring mountains of China....(more)" |
| schema:description | "measurements: Image: 112.5 x 51.1 cm (44 5/16 x 20 1/8 in.); Overall: 214 x 54.5 cm (84 1/4 x 21 7/16 in.)" |
| schema:description | "culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)" |
