“A pair of two-panel folding screens”

Yosa Buson

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Artist Name: Yosa Buson
Title: “A pair of two-panel folding screens”
Dimensions: painting (each panel)：152.2×78.5 cm
full length (each panel)：166.8×89.0 cm
Medium: ink on paper
Description: Yosa Buson (1716-1784) was born in Ōsaka.

He went to Tokyo when he was 20 years old and started to learn haiku.
In his late 30s he started to draw paintings.
He came back to Kyōto when he was 42 years old and then continued to compose haiku and draw paintings.