The Burke Collection
Both Banks of the Sumida River (両岸一覧)
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486-1

Artist

Tsuruoka Rosui

(鶴岡蘆水; fl. late 18th–early 19th century)

Catalogue information

Edo period, 1781

Two handscrolls; ink and color printed on paper

Scroll 1: 26 x 840 cm (10 1/4 in. x 27 ft. 6 3/4 in.)
Scroll ii (detail, below): 26 x 1386.6 cm (10 1/4 in. x 45 ft. 5 7/8 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Additional details

D486-1
D486-1
D486-2
D486-3
D486-4
D486-5

Text

Ryūsō Tōkai

Signature

[at beginning of scroll i] Inscribed by Tōkō Genrin [1732–1796] / summer 1781

[at end of scroll ii] Selected by Tōkō Genrin, painted by Tsuruoka Rosui, and engraved by Sekine Kaei in the fifth day of the fifth month of 1781.

Seals

[at beginning of scroll i] Raikindō; Genrin no in; Tōkō koji