Artist
Kaigetsudō Ando
(懐月堂安度; fl. late 17th–early 18th century)
Catalogue information
Edo period
Framed painting, formerly a hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper
100.4 x 42.3 cm (39 1/2 x 16 5/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Frank E. Hart
Literature
Murase 1975, no. 88
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 64
; 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. 82
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Murase 2000, no. 146
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 82.
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.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 247 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
Poem by Sarumaru Dayū from Kokin wakashū
[Poem 215] Treading through the autumn leaves in the deepest mountains, / I hear the belling of the lonely deer — / then it is that autumn is sad.
Signature
Painted by Japan’s playful painter Kaigetsudō
Seals
Kan’unshi
[?]; Ando