Orchid Pavilion Gathering (Q60474038)

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artist: Soga Shōhaku (Q3076703)
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location of final assembly: Japan (Q17)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.53

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: This painting depicts a famous gathering that took place in China in AD 353 to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, also known as the Double Third Festival, as it takes place on the third day of the third lunar month. The host invited everyone to the Orchid Pavilion to compose poetry and drink wine. Guests floated wine cups down a nearby creek, and where they landed, people had to drink the wine and compose a poem.

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