Artist
Nishikawa Sukenobu
(西川祐信; 1671–1751)
Catalogue information
Edo period, March 1731
Three-volume book; illustrations in ink on paper
Each volume approx. 27.1 x 18.6 cm (10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Preface: “By the Kyoto painter Bunkadō Nishikawa Sukenobu, the third month of 1731”
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 481 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
[Poem] No seeds were sown, / yet floating weeds thrive / on the ripples of the water.