Summer Night
Ōkyo painted these panoramas in the summer of 1784. Regarded as Kyoto's most important painting teacher and accomplished artist, he had studied Western painting techniques, "realistic" sketching from nature, and traditional Japanese style painting (yamato-e). The naturalistic quality of these scenes results from a blend of detailed observation of nature and a remote, even detached regard for man's place in the world.
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Details
- Date
- 1784
- Dimensions
- image: height 1.54 m, width 3.62 m
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Both · 99%
The image presents an expansive natural panorama with distant hills, open horizontal bands, and trees; the museum describes the work as a panorama based on detailed observation of nature.
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Times of Day Both · 98%
The title *Summer Night* and the visible circular moon and dark atmospheric band establish a nocturnal setting.
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Haze Visual · 97%
Softly blended tonal bands, veiled distance, and indistinct contours create a strongly hazy and atmospheric appearance.
Medium and Techniques
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Screen Format Both · 99%
The object is identified as a six-panel folding screen, and the image visibly shows six joined vertical panels forming a continuous horizontal composition.
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Painting Metadata · 99%
The Cleveland Museum of Art classifies the object as a painting and describes its medium as ink, gold, and silver on paper.
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Work on Paper Metadata · 99%
The catalog specifies paper as the support for the ink, gold, and silver.
Time Periods
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18th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to 1784, within the eighteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Japanese Art Metadata · 99%
The work originated in Japan and is held in the museum’s Japanese Art department.
Materials
Source & rights
Maruyama Ōkyo (Japanese, 1733–1795). Summer Night. Cleveland Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original TIFF ↗ 16,742 × 7,643 · Cleveland Museum Of Art · Available