Artist
Tani Bunchō
(谷文晁; 1763–1840)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 1828
Hanging scroll; ink on silk
126.2 x 59.2 cm (49 5/8 x 23 1/4 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Kōno Motoaki 1971, p. 35
; 1971
“Tani Bunchō hitsu Bakufu zu” (“A Water-Fall,” by Bunchō Tani). Kokka, no. 930 (February): 32–38.
Murase 1975, no. 81
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ueno Kenji 1976, p. 43
; 1976
“Tani Bunchō shukuzu gasatsu” (Study on the album of small drawings by Tani Bunchō). Tochigi Prefectural Museum Bulletin, no. 4: 37–78.
Nakajima Ryōichi 1982, fig. 11-a
; 1982
“Tani Bunchō no Chūgoku sansuiga kenkyū josetsu” (Introduction to the study of Chinese landscape painting by Bunchō Tani). Kobijutsu, no. 61 (January): 47–56.
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 56
; 1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.
Avitabile 1990, no. 98
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Murase 2000, no. 168
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Trinh 2003, pl. 90
; 2003
Darstellung realer Orte: Die “wahren Landschaften” des “Malenden Reporters” Tani Bunchō (1763–1840). Schweizer Asiatische Studien, 47. Bern: Peter Lang.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 116.
2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 373 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signature
Bunchō
Seal
Bunsei boshi Bunchō ga in