Artist
Ōtagaki Rengetsu
(大田垣蓮月; 1791–1875)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 1866
Hanging scroll; ink on silk
88.8 x 49.8 cm (35 x 19 5/8 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 79
; 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.
Fister 1988, no. 70
; 1988
With Fumiko Yamamoto. Japanese Women Artists, 1600–1900. Exh. cat. Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas.
Avitabile 1990, no. 102.
1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 409 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Inscription
by Rengetsu
My lord accumulates splendid years / one after another, like nodes of a bamboo. / He is a paragon whose reign will be long.
Signature
Rengetsu at age 76