Artist
Yosa Buson
(与謝蕪村; 1716–1783)
Catalogue information
Edo period, ca. 1765
Pair of six-panel screens; ink and color on silk
Each screen 157.2 x 359.8 cm (61 7/8 in. x 11 ft. 9 5/8 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. 49
; 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. 92
; 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. 111.
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 312 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signatures
[on each screen] Sha Shunsei
Seals
[on each screen] Sha Chōkō in; Hatsuboku Seikon