The Burke Collection
Sampling Tea beneath Wu Trees (梧下試茗図)
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Artist

Nakabayashi Chikutō

(中林竹洞; 1776–1853)

Catalogue information

Edo period, 1840

Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

119.2 x 54.1 cm (46 7/8 x 21 1/4 in.)

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

Additional details

D361-1
D361-1

Signature

Sampling Tea beneath Wu Trees painted on the twenty-fifth day of the third month in spring 1840, in the deep green shade at Higashiyama. Nakabayashi Narimasa

Seals

Narimasa no in; Aza Hakumei