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Itaya Keishū (Hiromasa)
Mounted Archery Contest at Nikkō Tōshōgū18th century

Not on view
Horizontal handscroll painting on silk or paper with gold ground, showing a continuous landscape with figures, buildings, trees, and mountains in green, blue, and brown pigments
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Horizontal emaki-style painting on silk depicting multiple groups of figures in formal court attire moving across a gold-toned landscape, with gnarled pine trees, architectural structures, and stylized gray-and-white clouds framing the composition.
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Horizontal handscroll painting in ink and mineral pigments on silk; upper register depicts a formal procession of figures in blue robes approaching a pavilion with a dark curved roof and red gate, beside a staircase flanked by green fencing; lower register shows mounted warriors and attendants carrying spears moving through a landscape of gnarled pine trees; gold and pale grey cloud bands separate the registers.
Japanese handscroll painting in ink and mineral pigments on silk; a procession of figures on horseback and on foot moves across a golden riverbank landscape, with dark green pine trees framing the scene; muted silver-grey bands suggest mist or water separating two horizontal registers
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Horizontal handscroll painting, ink and color on silk, depicting a large procession of figures on horseback and on foot moving across an open landscape, with a long wooden structure along the upper edge and several spreading pine trees in the foreground rendered in green with flat, stylized brushwork.
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Horizontal emaki-style painting on gold-ground silk, depicting a vast procession of hundreds of figures, horses, and banners arranged in formal rows across a golden plain, with green pine trees and blue-green water in the foreground and sandy hills above.
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Horizontal Japanese handscroll painting depicting a procession of figures in courtly attire moving through an architectural compound with red-gated walls, pine trees, and gold-leaf sky above a wide sandy plain.
Japanese hand scroll painting with gold-leaf sky, depicting a formal procession of mounted and robed figures across two horizontal registers, with dark green pine trees, a pavilion with a curved roof, and small attendant figures rendered in fine mineral pigments
Horizontal handscroll painting depicting a formal procession of figures, horses, and camels along a wide path beside a long latticed wall, with green pine trees in the foreground and figures in colorful robes rendered in fine detail against a gold ground.
Horizontal Japanese hand scroll painting depicting a large procession across an open sandy plain, with numerous figures in period dress, oxen, and palanquins moving toward a walled compound at left; pine trees, misty clouds, and a dark mountain visible in the distance; gold-toned background with mineral pigments.
Artist or Maker
Itaya Keishū (Hiromasa)
Japan, 1729-1797
Title
Mounted Archery Contest at Nikkō Tōshōgū
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
18th century
Period
Edo period (1603 - 1868)
Medium
Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
14 1/8 x 432 in. (36 x 1097.3 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Dickerman
Accession Number
M.72.110
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Vilbar, Sinéad and Kevin Gray Carr. Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019.