Snow Landscape
Yosa Buson · mid-1770s · Cleveland Museum of Art
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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. One of the artist's seals reads: "flung ink gives life to brush lines."
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- Maker
- Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716–1783)
- Date
- mid-1770s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting only: 174.6 x 67.3 cm (68 3/4 x 26 1/2 in.)
- Place of origin
- Japan
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · On view · 235A Japanese
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
