File:MET DP-12232-053.jpg

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Plum Blossoms - hanging scroll by Motsurin Joto (Bokusai) (MET, 2015.300.62)

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Plum Blossoms  wikidata:Q78622242 reasonator:Q78622242
Artist
Creator:Motsurin Jōtō (Bokusai)
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Title
Plum Blossoms Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Plum Blossoms Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Plum Blossoms Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type Japan; Hanging scroll;
Description
Plum blossoms, symbolic of the arrival of spring, were a favored subject among scholar-gentleman painters in China, but when Chinese ink paintings of plums arrived in Japan their imagery became widespread within Zen circles. This composition of a gnarled plum tree framed by a circle of ink wash may reflect the use of the circle in Zen painting and calligraphy as a visual representation of words from the text of the Heart Sutra, “form is void and void is form,” and as a symbol of enlightenment. Motsurin, a Zen artist-monk, might also have chosen plum blossoms because they were beloved of his mentor Ikkyū Sōjun (1394–1481), an abbot of Daitokuji temple in Kyoto known for his poetry, calligraphy, and flagrantly unorthodox behavior. Motsurin’s inscribed text claims that even elegant peonies and sweet jasmine cannot match the plum as a representation of the spring season. Paintings
Date 15th century
date QS:P571,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions Image: 10 3/4 × 16 11/16 in. (27.3 × 42.4 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Asian Art
Accession number
2015.300.62
Place of creation Japan Edit this at Wikidata
Credit line Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/670896

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