The Burke Collection
Seiōgyū (Ch. Zhenghuangniu, 政黄牛); Ikuzanshu (Ch. Yushanzhu, 郁山主)
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135-combined
135-1
135-2

Artist

Kano Naizen

(狩野内膳; 1570–1616)

Catalogue information

Momoyama period

Pair of hanging scrolls; ink on paper

Each scroll 111.8 x 47.4 cm (44 x 18 5/8 in.)

Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Ex Coll.: Nijō

Literature

Tsuji Nobuo 1980, nos. 97, 98
Tsuji Nobuo
1980
[Editor]. Bunjinga, shoha (Literati painting and other schools). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 6. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.

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Narusawa Katsutsugu 1985, fig. 20 (Seiōgyū)
Narusawa Katsutsugu
1985
“Kano Naizen kō” (On Kano Naizen). Kobe Shiritsu Hakubutsukan kenkyū kiyō 2 (March): 3–17.

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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 32
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. 74
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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Murase 2000, no. 76
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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Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 63.
Tsuji Nobuo et al.
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.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 135 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D135-1
D135-1
D135-2

Signature

[on right scroll] Naizen painted this

Seals

[on each scroll] Ko

Text

by Takuan Sōhō (1573–1645)

[right]

A man of the Way sits leisurely without a concern / astride a yellow ox, separated from the wind and dust [of this world]. / He has left the hermitage of his garden, / and from the ox’s horn hangs a sprig of peony from the Yao or Wei.

Signature

Casually inscribed by the recluse monk Nanzan Takuan

Seals

Senhō; Gin’an

[left]

Having crossed the plank bridge over and again seeking emptiness in vain, / I embark on a journey with no destination in mind. / Blue mountains and green waters surround the equestrian; / the rights and wrongs in the transient world breeze past the horse’s ears.

Signature

Painting of the Master of Mount Yu Riding a Donkey, casually inscribed by Sokuin Hissū Takuan

Seals

Senhō; Gin’an


Supplementary Transcriptions

[right]

Signature

內膳圖之。

Seals

顧（白文器形印）(intaglio, vessel shape)

Text

一个無心閑道人﹐ 黃牛背上隔風塵。 縱辭國士園中去﹐ 帶得角頭姚魏春。

Signature

南山隱僧澤菴漫賛。

Seals

泉彭（朱文方印）(relief, square)
沂庵（朱文器形印）(relief, vessel shape)

[left]

Text

踏斷板橋空叫空﹐
從玆行履任西東。
青山綠水遶鞍上﹐
浮世是非馬耳風。
郁山主之《騎驢圖》

Signature

但陰苾蒭澤菴漫賛焉。

Seals

泉彭（朱文方印）(relief, square)
沂庵（朱文器形印）(relief, vessel shape)
顧（白文器形印）(intaglio, vessel shape)