
Three Laughers of Tiger Valley
Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2025
Catalogue
- Year
- 1760
- Dimensions
- Image: 48 3/16 in. × 20 in. (122.4 × 50.8 cm) Overall with mounting: 77 9/16 × 26 1/8 in. (197 × 66.4 cm) Overall with knobs: 77 9/16 × 28 5/8 in. (197 × 72.7 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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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Yosa Buson
- Year
- 1760
- Dimensions
- Image: 48 3/16 in. × 20 in. (122.4 × 50.8 cm) Overall with mounting: 77 9/16 × 26 1/8 in. (197 × 66.4 cm) Overall with knobs: 77 9/16 × 28 5/8 in. (197 × 72.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1760-004609
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





