Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no Hosomichi 奥の細道)
Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no Hosomichi 奥の細道)

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Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no Hosomichi 奥の細道)

Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村, 1716–1783; born Kema, Osaka, Japan; died Kyoto Japan
Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
2020-382

Information

Title
Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no Hosomichi 奥の細道)
Maker
Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村
Medium
Fan painting; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 18.1 × 48.1 cm (7 1/8 × 18 15/16 in.) frame: 46.4 × 70.5 × 1.9 cm (18 1/4 × 27 3/4 × 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift from the Gitter-Yelen Collection and Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr. Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
2020-382
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Signatures
Signed left: 夜半翁蕪村写 Yahan ō Buson sha
Inscription
inscribed, see notes
Marks/Labels/Seals
Seals bottom left: 長庚 Chōkō; 春星 Shunsei
Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period)
Type
fans (costume accessories), paintings
Materials
paper (fiber product), ink, colorant
Techniques
painting (image-making)
Subject
men, poetry, travel

1979–2020 Gitter-Yelen Collection (New Orleans, LA), by gift and sold to the Princeton University art Museum, 2020.

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