Artist
attributed to Iwasa Matabei
(岩佐又兵衛; 1578–1650)
Catalogue information
Edo period
Fourteen figures on 7 folded sheets; ink on paper
Each sheet approx. 22 x 29 cm (8 5/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Guth 1992, fig. 13.
1992
Asobi: Play in the Arts of Japan. Exh. cat., Katonah Museum of Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Katonah, N.Y.: Katonah Museum of Art.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 419 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
[recto]
Fukurokuju
; [for the figure] Fukurokuju
[verso]
Saigyō hōshi
; [for the figure] Saigyō hōshi // Does the moon say “Grieve!” / Does it force / these thoughts on me? / And yet the tears come / to my reproving eyes.
Signature
[on page inscribed “Toshi no hajime
”] Inscribed by Iwasa Matabei