The Burke Collection
Snow, Cherry Blossoms, and Moon (Yoshiwara in Three Seasons)
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279-combined
279-1
279-2
279-3

Artist

Chōbunsai Eishi

(鳥文斎栄之; 1756–1829)

Catalogue information

Edo period, 1804–15

Triptych of hanging scrolls; ink, color, and gold on silk.

Each scroll 82.4 x 30.2 cm (32 1/2 x 11 7/8 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. 92
Murase, Miyeko
1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Jenkins 1993, pp. 192–95, no. IV-2
Jenkins, Donald
1993
[Editor]. The Floating World Revisited. Exh. cat. Portland, Ore.: Portland Art Museum.

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Murase 2000, no. 151
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. 85.
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 279a–c in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D279-1
D279-1

Signatures

[on each scroll] Painted by Chōbunsai Eishi

Seals

[on each scroll] Eishi

Text

by Ōta Nanpo (1749–1823)

[on right scroll] Heavy snow is piled / on the lintel of the gate to the Mimeguri Shrine. / Yoshiwara is near, / but it seems distant in this snow.

[on center scroll] Beside the flowering cherries of Nakanochō, / not a single tree from the deep mountain valleys.

[on left scroll] On the evening tide, rowing the boat / with oars made of the katsura branch growing on the moon, / now I look at the Pine of Fate, / wishing for the best luck.

Signatures

[on each scroll] Shokusanjin