Figure Mooring a Boat, Kannan, mid-1500s
KannanJapanese

Figure Mooring a Boat

mid-1500s · Painting

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Not on view at present

Where is “Figure Mooring a Boat” now? Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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About the painting

Kannan is a little-known painter of the Kanto region. Close inspection of this quiet scene suggests that it represents the “night rain over Xiao and Xiang” scene from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers. The style of the painting is similar to some works from Korea; as Japanese and Korean monk-painters traveled back and forth between one another’s monastic communities during the 1400s and 1500s, Kannan surely had the opportunity to consider incorporating Korean stylistic features into his work.

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Accession number
2015.474

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On view at The Cleveland Museum of Art

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