The Burke Collection
Monkey with Catfish in Gourd; Pine and Cranes
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Artist

Tomioka Tessai

(富岡鉄斎; 1836–1924)

Catalogue information

Meiji era, 1912

Pair of tanzaku; ink and light color on silk

Each tanzaku 36.2 x 6 cm (14 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.)

Gift from Gordon Washburn, 1980

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Additional details

D384-1
D384-1

[Monkey with Catfish in Gourd]

Text

by Tessai

Lately there are many more men who have a monkey’s guile to stick a catfish into a gourd

Signature

Tessai

Seal

Tessai

[Pine and Cranes]

Signature

January 1912. 77-year-old Tessai

Seal

Tessai