The Burke Collection
Bamboo Window on a Rainy Day
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307-1

Artist

Gion Nankai

(祇園南海; 1677–1751)

Catalogue information

Edo period, 18th century

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

131.8 x 58 cm (51 7/8 x 22 7/8 in.)

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

Literature

Murase 1975, no. 64
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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Murase 2000, no. 153.
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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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 307 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D307-2
D307-2
D307-3
D307-4

Text

by Nankai

Bamboo Window on a Rainy Day

Signature

Painted by Nankai Gyofu

Seals

[upper left] Royal Viewing: Copy of Sanmi Ōkurakyō’s identification mark for a seal; [lower left] Chikusō; [lower right] Kokko Danga


Supplementary Transcriptions

Text

竹窗雨日

Signature

南海漁夫寫。

Seals

天覽: 臨三位大藏卿之證記以為印（朱/白文長方印） (relief/intaglio, rectangle)
竹叟（白文橢圓連珠印） (intaglio, oval double seal)
兀古段我（白文長方印） (intaglio, rectangle)