Artist
Konoe Nobutada
(近衛信尹; 1565–1614)
Catalogue information
Momoyama period, 16th century
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
98 x 42.9 cm (38 5/8 x 16 7/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 78
; 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. 48.
1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Ink Painting of the Muromachi and Momoyama Periods
- Hanging scrolls
- Works of the Momoyama period
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 140 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
by Nobutada
If just the heart is set on the path of truth, / even without prayers, will not gods protect me?
Signature
kaō
Seals
Two illegible seals