Artist
Takahashi Sōhei
(高橋草坪; 1802–1833)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 1824
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
137.3 x 49.1 cm (54 x 19 3/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 358 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
by Sōhei
The tattered bamboo hat is all covered with snow; / in a lone boat is an old fisherman. / Gazing at the empty woods in sunset, / he seems tied down in the frozen stream.
Signature
Painted at Chikuden’s residence in the sixth month of 1824. Sōhei U
Seals
Shiseki Tengai; Sōhei; Kōu