Famous Views of Ōmi
Ōmi is an area around Lake Biwa near Kyoto. The Shinto shrine Hiyoshi Taisha and the Buddhist temple Ishiyamadera are in the upper right and upper left of the composition, respectively. At center is the pilgrimage route and people in the town before the temple gates. Harvested rice fields to the right and flowering cherry blossom trees at left show seasonal change from winter to spring.
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Details
- Artist
- Unknown artist
- Date
- 1660s–90s
- Dimensions
- image: height 1.528 m, width 3.441 m; overall: height 1.658 m, width 3.576 m; closed: height 1.7 m, width 0.117 m, depth 0.616 m; panel: height 1.658 m, width 0.596 m; with frame: height 1.698 m, width 3.616 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
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Art Genome Taxonomy
12 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes and Waterscapes Both · 99%
The work depicts the Ōmi region around Lake Biwa, with mountains, cultivated fields, trees, architectural sites, and waterways distributed across the panorama.
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Travel/Tourism Both · 96%
The museum identifies a pilgrimage route and people in the town before the temple gates; the image shows paths, groups of travelers, and movement through the depicted landscape.
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Related to Religion Both · 99%
The catalog identifies Ishiyamadera Buddhist temple and Hiyoshi Taisha Shinto shrine, while the image visibly includes several religious architectural complexes.
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Flora Both · 99%
Flowering cherry trees and other vegetation are visible across the landscape, and the catalog specifically identifies cherry blossoms as part of the seasonal imagery.
Visual Qualities
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Flatness Visual · 93%
The composition uses a compressed, largely planar gold ground with overlapping mountains, architecture, figures, and landscape forms rather than a single unified linear-perspective system.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Metadata · 99%
The museum classifies the object as a painting made with ink, color, and gold.
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Screen Format Both · 99%
The object is one of a pair of six-panel folding screens, and the supplied image visibly shows six joined vertical panels.
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Gold Leaf and Gilding Metadata · 98%
The catalog describes gold on gilded paper, directly supporting a gilding technique designation.
Time Periods
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17th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The Cleveland Museum of Art dates the work to the 1660s–90s, placing it within the seventeenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Japanese Art Metadata · 99%
The work originates in Japan during the Edo period and is classified by the museum as Japanese Art.
Materials
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Gold Both · 99%
The medium is recorded as ink, color, and gold on gilded paper, and the image visibly features an extensive gold ground.
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Use of Paper Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies gilded paper as the support for the painted composition.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Famous Views of Ōmi. Cleveland Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original TIFF ↗ 16,684 × 7,828 · Cleveland Museum Of Art · Available