Travels through Mountains and Fields
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015
Catalogue
- Year
- 1755
- Dimensions
- Image (each): 62 1/2 in. × 11 ft. 9 3/4 in. (158.8 × 360 cm) Overall (each): 63 7/8 in. × 11 ft. 11 1/16 in. (162.2 × 363.4 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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Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Yosa Buson
- Year
- 1755
- Dimensions
- Image (each): 62 1/2 in. × 11 ft. 9 3/4 in. (158.8 × 360 cm) Overall (each): 63 7/8 in. × 11 ft. 11 1/16 in. (162.2 × 363.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1755-004605
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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- verified