Artworks

White Plum Tree

Artwork · Matsumura Goshun · 1781–1789 · byōbu · Itsuō Art Museum

A pair of undated screens by Matsumura Goshun (1752–1811), who studied with Buson, worked beside Ōkyo after the Kyoto fire of 1788 and founded the Shijō school: white plums against pale blue on rough yellow pongee silk with four seams per panel, painted in grey-blue strokes; the left screen’s small trees silhouetted as if by the moon on a cloudless night. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 321–322, fig. 373. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.