# Gathering of Poetic Immortals with Poem Drafts

- By: Matsumura Goshun (Japanese, 1752–1811)
- By: Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716–1783)
- Date: 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)
- Credit line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.188)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1983.188/1983.188_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.