The Burke Collection
Rainstorm over a River Village
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Artist

Tanomura Chikuden

(田能村竹田; 1777–1835)

Catalogue information

Edo period

Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

132.3 x 42.2 cm (52 1/8 x 16 5/8 in.)

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

Literature

Suzuki Susumu 1963, fig. 136
Suzuki Susumu
1963
Chikuden. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.

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;
Murase 1975, no. 84
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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;
Murase 2000, no. 164.
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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Additional details

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Text

Rowing back home on a leaf-like boat, / ten miles of turbulent waves as overwhelming as the mountains. / Who knows that the difficult path in the world / is not the one in a stormy river village.

Signature

Chikudensei

Seals

Denshaji; Life is meant for the pursuit of happiness; [lower right] illegible


Supplementary Transcriptions

Text

一葉輕舟回棹還﹐
狂波十里勢如山。
誰知人世難行處﹐
不在江村風雨間。

Signature

竹田生

Seals

田舍兒(白文長方印)(intaglio, rectangle)
人生行樂耳(白文方印)(intaglio, square)
[右下角]一印不辨