ID: 700009559 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009559	Record Type: Movable Work
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The Daoist Immortal Liezi (screens (furniture); Kano School; ca. 1606; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 1989.139.1a–d; )

Note: These panels depict Daoist immortal Liezi (Japanese: Resshi), who flies away on a cloud, while awestruck figures discuss his mysterious disappearance. These door panels, or fusuma, originally decorated the west wall in the central room of the abbot’s quarters (hōjō) at Ryōanji, a Zen temple in Kyoto. They are part of a set of forty panels depicting assorted Confucian and Daoist figures that were installed in the three rooms. Evidence suggests that this work was created by painters of the Kano studio under the direction of a son of Kano Eitoku (1543–1590). One candidate is Kano Kotonobu, Eitoku’s third son, who served as a painter for Ryōanji’s chief patrons, the Hosokawa family, after his father’s death. The screens were dispersed and sold to private collectors in the early twentieth century. While some panels from the central room remain in Japan, panels from the adjoining room have been acquired by the Seattle Art Museum and other collections.

Titles:

The Daoist Immortal Liezi (preferred,C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: set

Work Types:

screens (furniture) [300037737] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Furnishings (hierarchy name), furnishings (works), <furnishings by form or function>, furniture, <furniture by form or function>)

sliding-door screens [300265170]

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Furnishings (hierarchy name), furnishings (works), <furnishings by form or function>, furniture, <furniture by form or function>, screens (furniture))

Classifications:

furniture (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1606

Creator Display:

Kano School [preferred]

Kanō Eitoku (Japanese painter, 1543-1590) Qualifier: school of [500121009]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1989.139.1a–d

Credit Line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in honor of Ambassador and Mrs. Michael Mansfield, 1989

Display Materials: Set of four sliding-door panels; ink, color, gold, and gold leaf on paper

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	color (pigment) [300264870]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>)

	gold leaf [300264831]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: Overall: 6 ft. x 24 ft. (182.9 x 731.5 cm)

Cultures:

Japanese (preferred)

General Subject:

undetermined (preferred)

Related Works:

	architectural context is .... Ryōanji [700009560] original location, ca. 1606
	..........temple (building); founded by Hosokawa Katsumoto; first structure, 11th century;...; Kyoto (Kyōto, Nihon, Asia, World, Top of the TGN hierarch...;

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
The Daoist Immortal Liezi	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 22 August 2018

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 22 August 2018