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Travelers in a Winter Landscape

Photo: Paul Macapia

Travelers in a Winter Landscape

1770s

Yosa Buson

Japanese, 1716 - 1783

Here is a typical scene in literati painting: a scholar on horseback is traveling with his attendant among mountains in a wintry landscape. The painter, Yosa Buson, was one of the key figures in the development of literati painting in Japan. Following the tradition in China, Buson did not intend to portray a specific landscape here but rather an embodiment of his state of mind or a poetic allusion.
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
43 15/16 x 14 7/16in. (111.6 x 36.7cm)
Mary Arrington Small Estate Acquisition Fund
84.9
Photo: Paul Macapia
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, A Thousand Cranes: Treasures Of Japanese Art, Feb. 5 - July 12, 1987.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, A Thousand Years of Beauty: Japanese Art in Seattle, July 16, 2001 - Nov. 17, 2002.

Tokyo, Japan, Suntory Museum of Art, Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum, July 25 - Sept. 6, 2009 (Kobe, Japan, Kobe City Museum, Sept. 19 - Dec. 6, 2009; Kofu, Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Dec. 23, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010; Atami, Japan, MOA Museum of Art, Mar. 13 - May 9, 2010; Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, May 23 - July 19, 2010).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing [on view Feb. 8, 2020 - July 11, 2021].
Published References"Selected Works." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, p. 197

Kawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors, "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum", 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun, catalogue number 53

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