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
; 1955
Uragami Gyokudō shinsekishū 1 (The authentic works of Uragami Gyokudō, 1). Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha.
Narazaki Muneshige 1955, p. 85
; 1955
“Uragami Gyokudō hitsu Yakyō Hōkin zu” (“Landscape,” by Uragami Gyokudō). Kokka, no. 756 (March): 84–89.
Tokyo National Museum 1965, no. 181
; 1965
Nihon no bunjingaten mokuroku (Exhibition catalogue of Japanese literati paintings). Exh. cat. Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum.
Murase 1975, no. 76
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Suzuki Susumu 1978, fig. 26
; Addiss 1987, p. 124, fig. 5.22
; 1987
Tall Mountains and Flowing Waters: The Arts of Uragami Gyokudō. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
Guth 1996, fig. 45
; 1996
Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City, 1615–1868. Perspectives. New York: Harry N. Abrams.
Murase 2000, no. 161
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Volk 2010, p. 157, fig. 72.
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.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 349 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
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