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
; Murase 1975, no. 84
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Murase 2000, no. 164.
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 357 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
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