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Gathering of Poetic Immortals with Poem Drafts
Matsumura Goshun (Japanese, 1752–1811)
and Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716–1783)
late 1700s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Image: 106.4 x 26.8 cm (41 7/8 x 10 9/16 in.); Mounted with knobs: 184.2 x 34 cm (72 1/2 x 13 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
When Yosa Buson died, his students raised funds for his daughter Kuno’s second marriage by selling their own paintings and calligraphies attached to surviving drafts of Buson’s poetry and commentary. Here, beneath a section of Buson’s manuscripts, Matsumura Goshun painted nine of the poets Buson judged to be the best at haikai, a humorous form of poetry in which poets take turns contributing verses to a poem. In his inscription, Goshun explained that his choice of subject relates to the content of Buson’s text.
