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Seventy-Two Peaks Under the Blue Sky with Mount Furong
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The low height of this folding screen suggests its use as a partition in a small tearoom. An inscription identifies the scene as the 72-peak Heng mountain range in Hunan, China, associated with Buddhist and Daoist traditions and celebrated in poetry. Special mention in the inscription is made of Mount Furong, one of the peaks in the range. Matsumura Goshun may have drawn inspiration from his teacher, Yosa Buson (与謝蕪村) (1716–1783), whose final work depicted the same mountain range.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSeventy-Two Peaks Under the Blue Sky with Mount Furong (青天七十二芙蓉図屏風), 1785. Matsumura Goshun (Japanese, 1752–1811). Eight-panel folding screen; ink with gold and silver foil on paper; image: 51.5 x 275.2 cm (20 1/4 x 108 3/8 in.); overall: 69.6 x 282.4 cm (27 3/8 x 111 3/16 in.); with frame: 72.9 x 285.7 cm (28 11/16 x 112 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1980.28
