Artist
Sekkyakushi
(赤脚子; fl. first half of 15th century)
Catalogue information
Muromachi period
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
53.6 x 29.6 cm (21 1/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Nakamura Tanio, Kanagawa Prefecture
Literature
Nakamura Tanio 1959a, pl. 42
; Yonezawa Yoshiho 1959, pp. 17–19
; 1959
“Sekkyakushi hitsu Bokudō zu” (“A Cowboy”). Kokka, no. 802 (January): 17–18.
Shimada Shūjirō 1969, vol. 1, p. 103
; 1969
[Editor]. Zaigai hihō: Ōbei shūzō Nihon kaiga shūsei (Japanese paintings in Western collections). Vol. 1, Bukkyō kaiga, yamato-e, suibokuga (Buddhist painting, yamato-e, and ink painting). Vol. 2, Shōbyōga, Rinpa, bunjinga (Screen paintings, rinpa, and literati painting). Vol. 3, Nikuhitsu ukiyoe (Hand-painted ukiyo-e). Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.
Fontein and Hickman 1970, no. 45
; Nakamura Tanio 1970
; 1970
“Bokudō zu, Sekkyakushi hitsu” (Sekkyakushi’s painting of the Ox and Herdboy). Nihon bijutsu kōgei, no. 379 (January): 98–99.
Tanaka Ichimatsu and Yonezawa Yoshiho 1970, pl. 40
; 1970
Suibokuga (Ink painting). Genshoku Nihon no bijutsu (Japanese art in color), 11. Tokyo: Shōgakukan.
Tanaka Ichimatsu 1974, pl. 106
; 1974
Kaō, Mokuan, Minchō. Suiboku bijutsu taikei (Art of ink painting), 5. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
Murase 1975, no. 30
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Shimizu and Wheelwright 1976, no. 4
; 1976
[Editors]. Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi Period; An Exhibition in Honor of Shūjirō Shimada. Exh. cat. Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University.
Kanazawa Hiroshi 1977, pl. 50
; 1977
Kaō, Minchō. Nihon bijutsu kaiga zenshū (Survey of Japanese paintings), 1. Tokyo: Shūeisha.
Kinoshita Masao 1979, fig. 175
; 1979
Editor. Zenshū no bijutsu: Bokuseki to zenshū kaiga (Arts of Zen Buddhism: Calligraphy and paintings of Zen). Nihon bijutsu zenshū (Survey of Japanese art), 14. Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.
Shimada Shūjirō 1979, no. 18
; 1979
[Editor]. Suibokuga (Ink painting). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 3. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 13
; 1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.
Avitabile 1990, no. 37
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art 1998, no. 9
; 1998
Zen-dera no eshi tachi (Painters of Zen temples). Exh. cat. Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art.
Murase 2000, no. 53
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Wada 2002, p. 24, fig. 4.
2002
The Oxherder: A Zen Parable Illustrated. Translations by Gen P. Sakamoto. New York: George Braziller.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Ink Painting of the Muromachi and Momoyama Periods
- Hanging scrolls
- Works of the Muromachi period
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 99 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
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