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Oct 15, 2010
Oct 15, 2010
Scenes from Essays in Idleness
Scenes from Essays in Idleness
徒然草図屏風
late 1700s–early 1800s
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Matsumura Goshun 松村呉春
(Japanese, 1752–1811)
(1615-1868)
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1971.43
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Matsumura Goshun inscribed passages from Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenkō’s (1283–1350) well-known collection of anecdotes, Essays in Idleness, across the top of each of the twelve panels of this pair of screens. Goshun illustrated the episodes with his vision of the figures who feature in them. The texts cascade down from right to left, forming unique compositional relationships with the images below.
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