Sailing Home with Wine (Translation)
松舟買酒歸図 江戸時代 浦上玉堂筆 紙本水墨 (Primary Title)
Boat in the Pines, Returning From Bartering For Wine (Former Title)
album leaf mounted as hanging scroll (Object Name)
Uragami Gyokudo, Japanese, 1745 - 1820 (Artist)
Uragami was best known as a musician who played the Chinese seven-string zither. He did not pursue painting until after 1795 when he retired from official service and lived a reclusive life. In this small painting, the artist used dry, sketchy, shortbrushstrokes and created a lyrical landscape that reveals his talent as not only a Nanga-school painter but also a poet and calligrapher as inscribed in the title.
Sumi-e 墨絵
Nanga 南画
Edo period (1615-1868)
玉堂 Gyokudo
弼 Hitsu
松舟買酒歸 (Sailing home with wine).
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund
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