Emperor Yao Visiting Yu Chonghua by Kusumi Morikage, mid- to late 1600s. One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink, slight color, and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art.
Emperor Yao Visiting Yu Chonghua · Kusumi Morikage · mid- to late 1600s · Cleveland Museum of Art

Emperor Yao Visiting Yu Chonghua

Kusumi Morikage

Year
mid- to late 1600s
Medium
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink, slight color, and gold on paper
Collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
License
Public Domain

Kusumi Morikage’s “Emperor Yao Visiting Yu Chonghua” is one of a pair of six-panel folding screens. Ink, slight color, and gold on paper. Mid- to late 1600s.

The screen depicts a legendary meeting of Emperor Yao and Yu Chonghua. Gold leaf highlights the intricate ink detailing. Edo period, Japan.

Kusumi Morikage was active as a painter from around 1620 to 1690. He became the official painter for the Maeda clan after leaving his teacher Kanō Tan’yū.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.105

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