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Snow Landscape, Yosa Buson, mid-1770s
Yosa Buson 与謝 蕪村, portraitYosa Buson 与謝 蕪村Japanese, 1716–1783

Snow Landscape

mid-1770s · Painting

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Yes, receiving visitors

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Room235A Japanese

On public display.

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About the painting

In this painting, the mountains and sky glow with a hidden warmth from undertones in red as birds descend into the trees around a scholar’s retreat. Yosa Buson is recognized in Japanese literary history as one of the country’s greatest poets, but he was also an accomplished, self-taught painter. His style changed over the course of his career. Initially painting with precise brushwork, he gradually developed a freer style like the one he used in this snowscape.

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Particulars

Accession number
1997.111

In the catalog

PaintingsInkJapanese paintingRococoNeoclassicism18th centuryJapan, Edo period (1615–1868)

Sources

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1760s · Not on view · Minneapolis Institute of Art

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