
Scene from The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015
Catalogue
- Year
- 1600
- Dimensions
- Image: 8 7/8 × 11 3/16 in. (22.6 × 28.4 cm) Overall with mounting: 40 in. × 20 15/16 in. (101.6 × 53.2 cm) Overall with knobs: 40 × 23 3/8 in. (101.6 × 59.3 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Yosa Buson
Artist

Painting
Yosa (no) Buson was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. He lived from 1716 – January 17, 1784. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period. He is also known for completing haiga as a style of art, working with haibun prose, and experimenting with a mixed Chinese-Japanese style of poetry.
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- Yosa Buson
- Year
- 1600
- Dimensions
- Image: 8 7/8 × 11 3/16 in. (22.6 × 28.4 cm) Overall with mounting: 40 in. × 20 15/16 in. (101.6 × 53.2 cm) Overall with knobs: 40 × 23 3/8 in. (101.6 × 59.3 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1600-004608
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
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- Status
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