Harvard Art Museums > TL42570.9: Visiting the Thatched Cottage in the Bamboo Grove Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Visiting the Thatched Cottage in the Bamboo Grove (Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村) , TL42570.9,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Mar 28, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/340363. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Gallery Text For much of his life, Buson himself was a poet—it was only out of financial necessity that he began to paint as he got older. He practiced short-form haikai poetry (commonly known as haiku), and his paintings are accordingly rooted not in the literati language of classical Chinese poetry but in the abbreviated imagery of this domestic genre, which celebrates the minutiae of everyday life. The persona of the solitary traveler features in some of Buson’s most memorable poems and paintings, moving through landscapes characterized by intense attention to the details of season, climate, and time of day. Identification and Creation Object Number TL42570.9 People Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村, Japanese (Settsu 1716 - 1784) Title Visiting the Thatched Cottage in the Bamboo Grove Classification Paintings Work Type painting, screen Date c. 1777–78 Places Creation Place: East Asia, Japan Period Edo period, 1615-1868 Culture Japanese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/340363 Location Location Level 2, Room 2600, East Asian Art, East Asian Painting and Decorative Arts View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Two-panel folding screen; ink and color on paper Dimensions image only: H. 161.4 x W. 177 cm (63 9/16 x 69 11/16 in.) with mount, flat: H. 177.2 x W. 193 cm (69 3/4 x 76 in.) screen opened, flexed: W. 170 cm (66 15/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks signature: 夜半翁写 [Painted by Yahan’ō] seal: upper; square, intaglio: 謝長康 [Sha Chōkō] seal: lower; square, intaglio: 謝春星 [Sha Shunsei] Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg Object Number TL42570.9 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Asahi Shimbusha, ed., Buson, sono futatsu no tabi, exh. cat. (Tokyo, 2001), #63, p. 119 The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection, exh. cat., Yomiuri Shinbunsha (Tokyo, 2013), pp. 78-79, cat. 27 Rachel Saunders and Yukio Lippit, Painting Edo: Selections from the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 2020), p. 57, fig. 44 Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 35-36, cat. 22 Exhibition History Buson: The Two Journeys, Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum, 02/06/2001 - 03/18/2001; Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 04/10/2001 - 05/20/2001 The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum, 05/21/2013 - 07/15/2013; Miho Museum, 07/20/2013 - 08/18/2013; Tottori Prefectural Museum, 10/05/2013 - 11/10/2013 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/04/2015 - 11/29/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/04/2023 - 06/03/2024 Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/14/2020 - 06/06/2021 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu