Emperor Yao Visiting Yu Chonghua
mid- to late 1600s
Medium
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink, slight color, and gold on paper
Dimensions
image: 131.9 × 348 cm · including mounting: 147.3 × 363.7 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1968.105
Tags
About this artwork
One of a pair, this screen shows a section of the narrative of how the Chinese Emperor Yao (about 2356–2255 BC) selected his successor, Yu Chonghua (about 2294– 2184 BC), who would become Emperor Shun. The artist who painted this screen, Kusumi Morikage, trained with Kano Tan’yō (1602–1647), painter-in-residence to Japan’s shogun, the country’s ruler, and was one of his four top students. Despite the conservative subject matter, Morikage’s distinctive sensibility shines through in his playful tr...