Artist
Yosa Buson
(与謝蕪村; 1716–1783)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 1774
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
128.9 x 70.5 cm (50 3/4 x 27 3/4 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
“Yosa Buson hitsu Kachō zu kai” 1930, pl. III
; 1930
“Yosa Buson hitsu Kachō zu kai” (“A Willow, a Peach-Tree, and Birds,” by Yosa Buson). Kokka, no. 477 (August): 233–34.
Tsuji Nobuo 1980, no. 27
; 1980
[Editor]. Bunjinga, shoha (Literati painting and other schools). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 6. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.
Murase 1993, no. 24
; 1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
Haga Tōru and Hayakawa Monta 1994, pls. 50, 71
; 1994
Buson. Suibokuga no kyoshō (Great masters of ink painting), 12. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
Murase 2000, no. 155
; 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. 112.
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 313 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signature
Painted at Yahantei in the summer of 1774. Sha Shunsei
Seals
Sha Chōkō; Sha Shunsei