Casually Created on a Spring Day

From the museum

Murase Taiitsu’s painting is paired with his own poem that reads: The world's fortunes rise and fall, and my heart churns without repose. I am almost like a fish in a boiling cauldron. Flowers are red, the willows green; spring is as ever. I wander through the forest to visit a humble tavern. The person in the scene gazes up at a tree’s branches, a tavern’s banner waving in the distance. After studying with a Confucian scholar in Kyoto, Taiitsu started his own school. His peers considered him eccentric and many accounts of his unusual behavior survive. Murase Taiitsu was fond of farting, and even had a seal reading "Fart Master."

The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC0