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Ablution Scene (Misogi)
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Three clues to this composition’s original format—a pair of doors to a cabinet shelf—are the two circles at either end, the seam down the center, and the size of the image.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineAblution Scene (Misogi), late 1700s. Tawaraya Sōri (Japanese, active late 1700s). Hanging scroll, ink, color and gold leaf on paper; image: 23.4 x 109.4 cm (9 3/16 x 43 1/16 in.); overall: 110 x 122.8 cm (43 5/16 x 48 3/8 in.); with knobs: 110 x 128.2 cm (43 5/16 x 50 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1985.29
