Artist
attributed to Taikyo Genju
(太虚元寿; fl. second half of 14th century)
Catalogue information
Nanbokuchō period
Hanging scroll; ink on silk
83.1 x 35 cm (32 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Matsushita Takaaki 1960, no. 14
; 1960
Muromachi suibokuga (Suiboku painting of the Muromachi period). Tokyo: Muromachi Suibokuga Kankōkai.
Shibue Jirō 1962, fig. 2
; 1962
Kamakura no suibokuga (Ink paintings of Kamakura). Kamakura Kokuhōkan zuroku (Catalogue of the Treasure House of Kamakura), 9. Kamakura: Kamakura Kokuhōkan.
Matsushita Takaaki 1967, fig. 136
; 1967
Suibokuga (Ink painting). Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 13. Tokyo: Shibundō.
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History 1972, fig. 16
; 1972
Kamakura no suibokuga: Gasō Shōkei no shūhen; Tokubetsuten (Special exhibition: Ink painting of the Kamakura period: The monk-painter Shōkei and his milieu). Exh. cat. Yokohama: Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History.
Murase 1975, no. 26
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Shimada Shūjirō 1979, no. 12
; 1979
[Editor]. Suibokuga (Ink painting). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 3. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.
Tokyo National Museum 1980, fig. 100
; 1980
Cha no bijutsu (Art of the tea ceremony). Exh. cat. Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum.
Ford 1985, fig. 3
; Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 11
; 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.
Shimada Shūjirō and Iriya Yoshitaka 1987, no. 148
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[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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; 1992
Il Giappone. Storia universale dell’arte: La civiltà dell’Oriente. Turin: UTET.
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Murase 2000, no. 43
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Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ohki 2007, p. 76, fig. 8.
2007
“What Makes a Japanese Painting Japanese?” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: 64–81.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Ink Painting of the Muromachi and Momoyama Periods
- Hanging scrolls
- Works of the Nanbokuchō period
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 113 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
by Taikyo Genju (fl. second half of 14th c.)
The withered tree has no twigs or leaves; / a wagtail pecks at wild mosses. / Inside the rock is a precious foot-long jade, / but when can it be chiseled out?
Signature
Taikyosō
Seals
Two illegible seals
Supplementary Transcriptions
Text
枯木無枝葉﹐
鶺領啄荒苔。
石中有尺璧﹐
何時鑿得開。
Signature
太虛叟