Artist
Sesson Shūkei
(雪村周継; ca. 1504–ca. 1589)
Catalogue information
Muromachi period
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk
39.8 x 51.3 cm (15 5/8 x 20 1/4 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Matsushita Takaaki 1960, no. 70
; 1960
Muromachi suibokuga (Suiboku painting of the Muromachi period). Tokyo: Muromachi Suibokuga Kankōkai.
Nakamura Tanio 1971, fig. 24
; 1971
Sesson to Kantō suibokuga (Sesson and ink painting of the Kantō region). Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 63. Tokyo: Shibundō.
Murase 1975, no. 40
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Shimada Shūjirō 1979, no. 88
; 1979
[Editor]. Suibokuga (Ink painting). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 3. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.
Akazawa Eiji 1980, fig. 68
; 1980
[Editor]. Muromachi no suibokuga: Sesshū, Sesson, Motonobu (Ink painting of the Muromachi period: Sesshū, Sesson, and Motonobu). Nihon bijutsu zenshū (Survey of Japanese art), 16. Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.
Etō Shun 1982, pl. 6
; 1982
[Editor]. Sesson Shūkei zen gashū (The complete works of Sesson Shūkei). Tokyo: Kōdansha.
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 23
; 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.
Avitabile 1990, no. 44
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Nakajima Junji 1994, fig. 69
; 1994
Suibokuga: Shōkei to Sesson (Ink painting: Shōkei and Sesson). Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 337. Tokyo: Shibundō.
Murase 2000, no. 67
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Yamashita Yūji and Asano Shūgō 2002, no. 58, p. 113
; 2002
Sesson ten: Sengoku jidai no sūpā ekisentorriku (Sesson exhibition: Super eccentric of the Warring States period). Exh. cat., Chiba City Museum of Art. Tokyo: Asano Kenkyūjo.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 43.
2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Ink Painting of the Muromachi and Momoyama Periods
- Hanging scrolls
- Works of the Muromachi period
- Works by Sesson Shūkei
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 109 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Seals
Sesson
(cauldron shaped); illegible; illegible; Sesson
(square)