Spring Mountain, Passing Rain Artist: Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716–1783)

ca. 1775

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk

Dimensions

without mounting: 42 1/8 × 18 in. (107 × 45.7 cm)
with mounting: 70 11/16 × 23 15/16 in. (179.5 × 60.8 cm)
with rollers: 26 3/8 in. (67 cm)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds from The Japan Foundation Endowment of the Council on East Asian Studies and the Katharine Ordway Fund

Accession Number

2006.131.3a-c

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Marui Kenzaburo, Osaka, until February 22, 2001 (the date that appears on the release paper that was signed by the director of the Kyoto National Museum proving that the work is not a nationally designated work of art; it is the first of the four on the list.); Leighton R. Longhi, New York; purchased in 2006 by the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Sadako Ohki, "What Makes Japanese Painting Japanese," in "Japanese Art at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 70–71, 80, fig. 3
  • Sadako Ohki, "Japanese Art at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 42
  • Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 160, 379, pl. 143
  • Sasaki Johei and Masako Sasaki, "Buson: sono futatsu no tabi," Asahi Shinbunsha (2001),
  • Tsutomu Ogata and Johei Sadaki, eds., Buson zenshu: kaiga lboku (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1992), 218, fig. 291
  • Tanaka Ichimatsu et al., ed., Nihon bujitsu kaiga zenshu (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1977), pl. 66
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

hanging scrolls, landscapes (representations)

Subject

mountains rain spring

Marks

Seals: Sha Shunsei (謝春星)　and Sha Chōkō (謝長庚) (both square seals and intaglio)

Inscriptions

Spring mountain passing rain (Shunzan kau) 春山過雨.

Signed

Sha Shunsei (謝春星)

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