Artist
Motsurin (or Botsurin) Jōtō
(没倫紹等; also known as Bokusai, 墨斎; d. 1491)
Catalogue information
Muromachi period
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
118.8 x 26.4 cm (46 3/4 x 10 3/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Murase 1993, no. 10.
1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 520 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
Taller, taller, wild grasses grow in the field, / only to wither at the end of the season.
Seals
Jōtō
; Shiran