Artist
Unkei Eii
(雲溪永怡; fl. first half of 16th century)
Catalogue information
Muromachi period, before 1535
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
23.7 x 27.6 cm (9 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Tanaka Ichimatsu and Nakamura Tanio 1973, vol. 7, fig. 11
; 1973
Sesshū, Sesson. Suiboku bijutsu taikei (Art of ink painting), 7. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
Shimada Shūjirō 1979, pl. 54
; 1979
[Editor]. Suibokuga (Ink painting). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 3. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.
Pollack 1985, pp. 89–90
; 1985
Zen Poems of the Five Mountains. Studies in Religion /American Academy of Religion, 37. New York: Crossroad; Decatur, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1985.
Fukushima Tsunenori 1993a, fig. 22
; 1993a
Muromachi jidai no Sesshū ryū (The followers of Sesshū in the Muromachi period). Exh. cat. Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art.
Murase 1993, no. 15.
1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Ink Painting of the Muromachi and Momoyama Periods
- Hanging scrolls
- Works of the Muromachi period
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 119 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Seal
Eii
Text
by Daiko Shōkaku (d. 1535)
To the lush woods, good for nesting, birds return. / Reposing on a branch, they cuddle through the night. / The phoenix remains above the blue clouds. / Feathery wings take it to great heights which, however, are not fit for dwelling.
Signature
Composed by Son’an
Seals
Daiko; Shōkaku
Supplementary Transcriptions
Seal
永怡（朱文方印）(relief, square)
Text
林茂宜巢鳥亦歸﹐
一枝棲息晚相依。
鸞鳳尚在青雲上﹐
羽翅雖高宿處非。
Signature
村庵作。
Seals
太虛（朱文器形印） (relief, vessel shape)
祥廓（白文方印）(intaglio, square)