The Burke Collection
Landscape after a Qing Chinese Work
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Artist

Okada Hankō

(岡田半江; 1782–1846)

Catalogue information

Edo period, 19th century

Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

118.5 x 35.5 cm (46 5/8 x 14 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Additional details

Text

by Hankō

By the window at dawn, my white hair battles the west wind. / As I smile, the blue clouds are gone like the past. / Only the blue mountains are my bosom friends, / which I meet most often in paintings.

Signature

Emulating the brushwork of Qing Chinese painters, Hankō

Seals

Shuku Shiu in; Shuku in