Snow Landscape

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Look for the flock of tiny birds dropping toward the snowy trees, then for the faint warm red beneath the grey of the mountains and sky.

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Japanese literary history ranks Yosa Buson among the country’s greatest poets, yet he was also a skilled painter who had taught himself. The Cleveland Museum of Art notes that he moved over the years from precise brushwork to a freer manner, as in this snowscape of the mid-1770s. A seal at lower left, which he used after returning to Kyoto in 1757, reads “Splashed ink gives rise to traces.”

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hanging scroll; ink and color on paper · Painting only: 174.6 x 67.3 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art

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