Artist
Ono Otsū
(小野お通; 1568–ca. 1631)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 1624
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
63 x 41 cm (24 3/4 x 16 1/8 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. 75
; 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. 80
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 65
; 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.
Nakamachi Keiko 2012, fig. 1, p. 27.
2012
“Egaita josei tachi—Heian jidai kara Edo jidai o chūshin ni” (Women who painted: Focusing on the Heian to Edo periods). Kokka (March), no. 1397: 25–39.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 144 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
by Otsū
The eye that regards the guileless child / is a friendly soul who is outside this soiled world. / Seventh day of the second month, 1624
Signature
Painted and inscribed by Tsūjo of the Ono Clan
Seal
Kaō