The Burke Collection
Early Spring Landscape
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106-1

Artist

Shūtoku

(周徳; fl. first half of 16th century)

Catalogue information

Muromachi period

Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

71.1 x 40.6 cm (28 x 16 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Literature

Matsushita Takaaki 1967, fig. 88
Matsushita Takaaki
1967
Suibokuga (Ink painting). Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 13. Tokyo: Shibundō.

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Tanaka Ichimatsu and Nakamura Tanio 1973, pl. 80
Tanaka Ichimatsu and Nakamura Tanio
1973
Sesshū, Sesson. Suiboku bijutsu taikei (Art of ink painting), 7. Tokyo: Kōdansha.

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Murase 1975, no. 39
Murase, Miyeko
1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Shimizu and Wheelwright 1976, no. 21
Shimizu, Yoshiaki, and Carolyn Wheelwright
1976
[Editors]. Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi Period; An Exhibition in Honor of Shūjirō Shimada. Exh. cat. Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University.

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Kawai Masatomo 1978, fig. 31
Kawai Masatomo
1978
Yūshō, Tōgan. Nihon bijutsu kaiga zenshū (Survey of Japanese painting), 11. Tokyo: Shūeisha.

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Shimada Shūjirō 1979, no. 60
Shimada Shūjirō
1979
[Editor]. Suibokuga (Ink painting). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 3. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.

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Akazawa Eiji 1980, fig. 46
Akazawa Eiji
1980
[Editor]. Muromachi no suibokuga: Sesshū, Sesson, Motonobu (Ink painting of the Muromachi period: Sesshū, Sesson, and Motonobu). Nihon bijutsu zenshū (Survey of Japanese art), 16. Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.

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Kanazawa Hiroshi 1983, fig. 54
Kanazawa Hiroshi
1983
Muromachi kaiga (Paintings of the Muromachi period). Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 207. Tokyo: Shibundō.

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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 22
Tokyo National Museum
1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.

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Shimada Shūjirō and Iriya Yoshitaka 1987, no. 126
Shimada Shūjirō and Iriya Yoshitaka
1987
Zenrin gasan: Chūsei suibokuga o yomu (Painting colophon from Japanese Zen milieu). Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.

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Avitabile 1990, no. 43
Avitabile, Gunhild
1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

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Fukushima Tsunenori 1993a, fig. 31
Fukushima Tsunenori
1993a
Muromachi jidai no Sesshū ryū (The followers of Sesshū in the Muromachi period). Exh. cat. Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art.

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Murase 2000, no. 63
Murase, Miyeko
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 41.
Tsuji Nobuo et al.
2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 106 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D106-1
D106-1
D106-2
D106-3

Seal

[lower right] Shūtoku

Text

by Yōkoku Kentō (d. 1533)

Though the west lake swells with water as spring arrives, / the emerald bamboo outdoors blocks the sight of boats. / Had the east wind facilitated his quest, / he would have returned by boat in moon­light to the frosted land of Wu faraway.

Signature

Kakyō Kansho Dōjin Kentō

Seal

[upper left, right-hand seal] Yōkoku

Text

by Teihō Shōchū (fl. ca. 1538)

Floating in a boathouse on the brimming spring river, / what could one desire in a sound sleep after mooring? / In nothing but insouciant boating would I spend the rest of my life, / with mountains along the white gull-dotted stream as my beauties.

Signature

[upper left, above left-hand seal] Shōchū, formerly of Kenchōji

Seal

[upper left, left-hand seal] Shōchū


Supplementary Transcriptions

Seal

周德（白文方印）(intaglio, square)

Text

西泊春來雖水肥﹐
碧湘門外掩船扉。1
東風若為斯郎便﹐
一髮吳霜棹月歸。2

Signature

佳境甘蔗道人乾瞳

Seal

彼谷（白文方印）(intaglio, square)

Text

春水滔天屋檨浮﹐
泊船栽睡所何求。
殘生只付風流檝﹐
山是美人江白鷗。

Signature

前福山昌忠

Seal

昌忠（朱文方印）(relief, square)

Notes

1. The character “湘”refers to the species of speckled bamboo associated with the goddess of the Xiang River in modern Hunan Province. In Zhang Hua’s 張華 (232-300) Collective Notes on Miscellaneous Things (博物志), it says, “Yao’s two daughters became Shun’s two imperial consorts, known as Lady Xiang. Upon Shun’s death, the two consorts cried so much that their tears speckled the entire bamboo grove.” (堯之二女，舜之二妃，曰湘夫人。舜崩，二妃啼，以涕汨揮，竹盡斑。)

2. The third line of the poem alludes to Du Mu’s 杜牧 (803-853) poem “The Red Cliff” (赤壁), in which the man refers to Zhou Yu 周瑜 (175-210), commander-in-chief of the Wu Kingdom in the Three Kingdoms Period (220-265). The timely east wind helped Zhou Yu defeat Cao Cao’s 曹操 (155-220) naval fleet and won the battle at the Red Cliff, in modern Hubei Province, in 208. The identity of the man in the poem inscribed here is not clear.