蜀山人(大田南畝)筆 筍図|Bamboo Shoots
Shokusanjin (Ōta Nanpo)
1820 · Hanging scroll; ink on silk · Asian Art
This abbreviated, sketchlike depiction of young bamboo shoots emerging from the earth and the accompanying inscription in cursive script are the work of Shokusanjin (better known as Ōta Nanpo), a poet and author of fiction. Renowned for his kyōka, or comic verses, Shokusanjin often collaborated with artists, contributing his own poetry and calligraphy to their paintings or prints. The auspicious poem here, written when he was seventy-one, may celebrate the large family of a friend. Take no ko no mata take no ko no take no ko no shoots ko no ko no sue mo shigeru medetasa Bamboo shoots and more bamboo shoots, and then shoots of shoots and their offspring too— all thankfully flourishing! —trans. John T. Carpenter
- Artist
- Shokusanjin (Ōta Nanpo)
- Date
- 1820
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on silk
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975
