Artist
Okada Hankō
(岡田半江; 1782–1846)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 19th century
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
118.5 x 35.5 cm (46 5/8 x 14 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 354 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
by Hankō
By the window at dawn, my white hair battles the west wind. / As I smile, the blue clouds are gone like the past. / Only the blue mountains are my bosom friends, / which I meet most often in paintings.
Signature
Emulating the brushwork of Qing Chinese painters, Hankō
Seals
Shuku Shiu in; Shuku in