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D.55cm H.200cm
It depicts the morning sun in the mountains, a crane perched on a pine tree, a turtle on a rock at the base of the pine tree, and blue ocean waves lapping against the rock. Goshun's painting is accompanied by the following compliment by Mitsuzane Toyama.
The morning sun is always bright
Crane and Turtle Fluttering in the Shadows
Goshun was a painter of the mid-Edo period and the founder of the Shijo School. He studied haikai and painting under Yosa Buson. Later, under the influence of Maruyama Okyo, he added a haikai-like stylishness to the realism he had absorbed from Okyo, and his unique style influenced the subsequent Kyoto art world. Matsumura Keibun, who wrote the box, became a disciple of Goshun. The poem was praised by Mitsuzane Toyama, a courtier and poet of the mid-Edo period.
Goshun 呉春
1752 – 1811
He sometimes also referred to as Matsumura Gekkei (松村 月渓), was a Japanese painter of the Edo period and founder of the Shijō school of painting. He was a disciple of the painter and poet Yosa Buson (1716–1784), a master of Japanese southern school painting.
His work is held in several museums worldwide, including the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Worcester Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum and etc.
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