The Burke Collection
Plum Tree
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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

Additional details

D364-1
D364-1
D364-2
D364-3

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