Landscape in Light Colors
Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2019
Catalogue
- Year
- 1775
- Dimensions
- Image: 15 1/4 × 24 7/8 in. (38.8 × 63.2 cm) Overall with mounting: 53 15/16 × 34 1/8 in. (137 × 86.7 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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- Yosa Buson
- Year
- 1775
- Dimensions
- Image: 15 1/4 × 24 7/8 in. (38.8 × 63.2 cm) Overall with mounting: 53 15/16 × 34 1/8 in. (137 × 86.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1775-004607
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
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- verified