Snow Landscape

c. 1770s

Yosa Buson 与謝 蕪村

(Japanese, 1716–1783)
Painting only: 174.6 x 67.3 cm (68 3/4 x 26 1/2 in.)
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Buson is recognized in Japanese literary history as one of the country's greatest poets. He was also an accomplished painter who revolutionized the 18th-century "scholar-painting" school by introducing new subject matter and a more personalized brush style. Like most literati painters who were schooled in the Chinese classics, his early paintings invariably depicted historical subjects in a precise manner. By the 1770s, however, he developed a looser, more expressive brush manner distinctly his own. Although undated, the painting's exuberant style suggests that this snow scene dates from that time. One of the artist's seals reads: "flung ink gives life to brush lines."
Snow Landscape

Snow Landscape

c. 1770s

Yosa Buson

(Japanese, 1716–1783)
Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)

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