The Burke Collection
Bamboo and Plums in Early Spring
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353-1

Artist

Okada Hankō

(岡田半江; 1782–1846)

Catalogue information

Edo period, 1843

Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

127.7 x 59.1 cm (50 1/4 x 23 1/4 in.)

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

Literature

Murase 1975, no. 83.
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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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 353 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D353-1
D353-1
D353-2
D353-3

Signature

Painted by Hankō in the summer of 1843

Seals

Denshuku; Hankō

Text

by Hineno Kyōsui (1786–1854)

At the feet of lovely mountains and by the brooks, / piles of snow and ice cannot thwart the arrival of spring. / Cool, delicate plum blossoms and pure slender bamboo / shelter the tender-hearted one reclining in the pavilion.

Signature

Kyōsui Kinsō

Seals

Sekika; Hine Kōkyō; Kyōsui


Supplementary Transcriptions

Signature

癸卯夏月半江寫。

Seals

匝肅（白文長方印）(intaglio, rectangle)
半江（白文長方印）(intaglio, rectangle)

Text

好山之麓澗之濱﹐
積雪堆冰不礙春。
寒秀梅花清瘦竹﹐
護他溫藉臥樓人。

Signature

鏡水釣叟

Seals

夕佳（朱文長方印）(relief, rectangle)
又根弘享（白文方印）(intaglio, square)
鏡水（白文方印）(intaglio, square)