The Burke Collection
Crossing a Mountain Bridge with a Zither
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Artist

Uragami Gyokudō

(浦上玉堂; 1745–1820)

Catalogue information

Edo period, 1814

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

127.4 x 54.4 cm (50 1/8 x 21 3/8 in.)

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

Ex Coll.: Idegawa Shigeru, Kumamoto

Literature

Miyake Kyūnosuke 1955, pl. 25
Miyake Kyūnosuke
1955
Uragami Gyokudō shinsekishū 1 (The authentic works of Uragami Gyokudō, 1). Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha.

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Narazaki Muneshige 1955, p. 85
Narazaki Muneshige
1955
“Uragami Gyokudō hitsu Yakyō Hōkin zu” (“Landscape,” by Uragami Gyokudō). Kokka, no. 756 (March): 84–89.

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Tokyo National Museum 1965, no. 181
Tokyo National Museum
1965
Nihon no bunjingaten mokuroku (Exhibition catalogue of Japanese literati paintings). Exh. cat. Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum.

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Murase 1975, no. 76
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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Suzuki Susumu 1978, fig. 26
Suzuki Susumu
1978
Uragami Gyokudō. Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 148. Tokyo: Shibundō.

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Addiss 1987, p. 124, fig. 5.22
Addiss, Stephen
1987
Tall Mountains and Flowing Waters: The Arts of Uragami Gyokudō. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

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Guth 1996, fig. 45
Guth, Christine
1996
Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City, 1615–1868. Perspectives. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

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Murase 2000, no. 161
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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Volk 2010, p. 157, fig. 72.
Volk, Alicia
2010
In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugorō and Japanese Modern Art. The Phillips Book Prize Series, 1. Berkeley: University of California Press; Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection.

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Additional details

D349-1
D349-1

Text

by Gyokudō

Painted the picture Crossing a Mountain Bridge with a Zither on a spring day in 1814

Signature

Gyokudō Kinshi is 70 years old

Seal

Takeuchi Daijin no mago