Thatched Retreat on Cold Mountain
Yosa Buson, Thatched Retreat on Cold Mountain, early to mid-1770s, hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, public domain, 2018.76.13
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- Title
Thatched Retreat on Cold Mountain
- Related Titles
original language: 寒山茆屋図
transliterated: Kanzan bōoku zu
- Artist
- Date
early to mid-1770s
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
painting: 40 1/4 in x 14 5/16 in; mounting: 73 1/2 in x 22 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
seal: 長庚; 春星, stamped, upper right Transliteration: Chōkō; Shunsei
signature: 謝春星寫, ink, upper right Transliteration: Sha Shunsei sha
- Collection Area
Asian Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
hanging scroll
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles
- Accession Number
2018.76.13
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
From Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles
Yosa Buson is known as a poet of haikai verse, short poems of seventeen syllables. But he is also one of the most revered painters of the eighteenth century, a time when urbanization and prosperity fueled a burst of creativity in the arts.
Buson’s paintings, like his poems, speak directly to the soul. His dense web of dry and wet brushwork, laid over modulated washes, creates realms of the imagination where we are invited to roam. Here, a recluse dwelling in a mountain cottage looks at us in welcome, with tea already on the table.
- Exhibitions
2018 Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles Portland Art Museum
