The Burke Collection
Early Spring Landscape
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104-1

Artist

Hidemori

(also known as Shūsei [秀盛]; fl. first half of 15th century)

Catalogue information

Muromachi period

Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

74.5 x 27.7 cm (29 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Literature

Matsushita Takaaki 1960, no. 29
Matsushita Takaaki
1960
Muromachi suibokuga (Suiboku painting of the Muromachi period). Tokyo: Muromachi Suibokuga Kankōkai.

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Matsushita Takaaki 1968, ill.
Matsushita Takaaki
1968
“Hidemori no sūten no sakuhin” (On several paintings by Hidemori). Bukkyō geijutsu / Ars Buddhica, no. 69 (December): 135–43.

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Matsushita Takaaki and Tamamura Takeji 1974, pl. 64
Matsushita Takaaki and Tamamura Takeji
1974
Josetsu, Shūbun, San Ami. Suiboku bijutsu taikei (Compendium of ink painting), 6. Tokyo: Kōdansha.

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Murase 1975, no. 33
Murase, Miyeko
1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Matsushita Takaaki 1978, fig. 78
Matsushita Takaaki
1978
Josetsu, Shūbun. Nihon bijutsu kaiga zenshū (Survey of Japanese painting), 2. Tokyo: Shūeisha.

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Shimada Shūjirō 1979, no. 62
Shimada Shūjirō
1979
[Editor]. Suibokuga (Ink painting). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 3. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.

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Ford 1985, fig. 8
Ford, Barbara Brennan
1985
“Muromachi Ink Painting.” Apollo 121, no. 276 (February): 114–19.

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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 14
Tokyo National Museum
1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.

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Avitabile 1990, no. 40
Avitabile, Gunhild
1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

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Kanazawa Hiroshi 1994, fig. 69
Kanazawa Hiroshi
1994
Suibokuga: Josetsu, Shūbun, Sōtan (Ink painting: Josetsu, Shūbun, and Sōtan). Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 334. Tokyo: Shibundō.

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Murase 2000, no. 62.
Murase, Miyeko
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 104 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D104-2
D104-2
D104-1

Text

by Sesshin Tōhaku (d. 1459)

South of the river, north of the river, the snow is ­clearing. / Mountains spew forth rosy clouds, springtime colors are fresh. / Travelers remove their shoes, though the going still is rough. / Opening the window, seated guests enjoy the splendid view. / Water flowing beneath the bridge rings like chimes of jade. / At the eaves, the wind in the pines tunes its stringless lute. / But why is that leaf of a boat moored beside the cliff ? / It must be a craft for roving ten thousand miles away.

Signature

Composed at random by Chōsetsushi

Seals

[lower right of scroll] Hidemori; [upper right of inscription] illegible; [lower left of inscription] Sesshin