The Burke Collection
Autumn Moon over Lake Dongting, from Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers (瀟湘八景)
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Artist

Kano Tōun

(狩野洞雲; 1625–1694)

Catalogue information

Edo period, 1675

Handscroll; ink and light color on paper

27 x 513.3 cm (10 5/8 in. x 16 ft. 10 1/8 in.)

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

Additional details

D153-1
D153-1

Text

Poem by Ichiki Konzan

Autumn water is very clear, / late at night the moon is dipped / in the white caps of waves.

Signature

[at end of scroll] Painted by Tōun

Seal

[at end of scroll] Kanbara


Supplementary Transcriptions

Signature

洞雲筆。

Seal

灌原(白文方印)(intaglio, square)