Artist
Nakabayashi Seishuku
(中林清淑; 1831–?)
Catalogue information
Edo period
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
129.2 x 29.9 cm (50 7/8 x 11 3/4 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 364 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signature
Painted by Nakabayashi Seishuku
Seals
Seishuku; Chūkyō
Text
by Yoshida Shūran (1797–1866)
Getting up on a frosty morning, / I don’t mind the chill, but chant poetry softly, / leaning on the green balustrade. / Does the icy beauty have romantic longing too? / She emanates pure fragance onto my morning coiffure.
Signature
Composed by Shūran Joshi
Seals
Tennen; Satō no in; Shūran