The Burke Collection
Woodcutters; Fishermen
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406-combined
406-1
406-2

Artist

Matsumura Goshun

(松村呉春; 1752–1811)

Catalogue information

Edo period, ca. 1790–95

Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and light color on paper

Each screen 170.8 x 347.6 cm (67 1/4 in. x 11 ft. 4 7/8 in.)

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

Literature

Shimada Shūjirō 1969, vol. 2, no. 89
Shimada Shūjirō
1969
[Editor]. Zaigai hihō: Ōbei shūzō Nihon kaiga shūsei (Japanese paintings in Western collections). Vol. 1, Bukkyō kaiga, yamato-e, suibokuga (Buddhist painting, yamato-e, and ink painting). Vol. 2, Shōbyōga, Rinpa, bunjinga (Screen paintings, rinpa, and literati painting). Vol. 3, Nikuhitsu ukiyoe (Hand-painted ukiyo-e). Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.

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Murase 1971, no. 13
Murase, Miyeko
1971
Byōbu: Japanese Screens from New York Collections. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society.

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Hillier 1974, pl. 19 (Fishermen)
Hillier, Jack Ronald
1974
The Uninhibited Brush: Japanese Art in the Shijō Style. London: Hugh M. Moss.

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Takeda Tsuneo et al. 1982, pp. 83, 171
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Murase 1993, no. 32
Murase, Miyeko
1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.

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Murase 2000, no. 117
Murase, Miyeko
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 114.
Tsuji Nobuo et al.
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.

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Additional details

D406-1
D406-1
D406-2

Signatures

[on right screen] Painted by Goshun

[on left screen] Goshun

Seals

[on each screen] Goshun; Hakubō