Artist
Yosa Buson
(与謝蕪村; 1716–1783)
Catalogue information
Edo period
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
31.1 x 47.1 cm (12 1/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 317 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signature
Painted by Sha Chōkō Shunsei
Seal
Shunsei
Text
by Shibano Ritsuzan (1736–1807)
If it is not
the leftover material from patching up the firmament, / it must be the fragment of a fallen star. / Cool enough to sober up the drunken
Tō Enmei
[Ch. Tao Yuanming], / so dense as to be chiseled into Ō Gishi’s
[Ch. Wang Xizhi’s] inkstone.
Signature
Inscribed by Shiba Sangen
Seals
Seigo; Shiba Kunihiko in; Shibashi Hikosuke; Hōdō aiganki
[collector]