Artist
Tachibana Gitoku
(橘祇徳; d. 1767)
Catalogue information
Edo period
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
26.5 x 47.2 cm (10 3/8 x 18 5/8 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 456 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
by Gitoku
In front of Hitomaro Shrine / composed poems all day all alone / to fulfill the vow to compose one thousand poems in a day. // Late in the day / that is drawing to a close / at the God’s domicile.
Signature
Painted by Gitoku
Seal
Tachibana gai Gitoku