Pine and Plum by Moonlight
The art of Japan in the Edo Period, Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, MO, March 16 – April 28, 1958; City Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, May 13 – June 30, 1958, no.4, 5.
Japanese Decorative Style, Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, OH, August 30—October 15, 1961; Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL.
Kaihō Yūshō, Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan, April 11 – May 21, 2017.In this painting, Kaihō Yūshō captures a tranquil moment before dawn when the hazy moon illuminates a valley. The artist used wet, broad brushstrokes—known as boneless-style and originally from China—to capture the misty atmosphere. In the space where the light and shadow intersect, the rocks and trees disappear into the mist.
Born to a samurai family, Yūshō spent the early stage of his life at a Zen Buddhist temple. When he was about forty years old, he returned to secular life and focused on painting.
Purchase –
With FUSE Akinobu, Kobe, Japan, until January 1942;
With Private collector, Japan, before November 28, 1957;
With Mr. Mathias Komor, New York, November 28, 1957 - March 5, 1958;
Purchased from Mr. Mathias Komor by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973) 106.
Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973) 275, fig. 4.
Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988) cat. 115.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993) 361.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008) 388, fig.29.
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Art, Japanese Art of the Edo Period, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Gallery, 1958) 30, 31, no. 4, 5
Kokka, no. 614 (January 1942): pl. 3,4.
Osaka shiritsu bijutsukan, Meihō tenrankai zuroku, exh. cat. (Osaka shiritsu bijutsukan) no. 15, no.6
Sherman E. Lee, Japanese Decorative Style, exh. cat. (New York: Abrams, 1961) no. 57
Taigan Kobori, Collection of Screen Door & Wall Paintings, vol. 7, Kenninji ( Kyoto: Tankosha, 2008) 95, fig. 8.
Elizabeth B. Rodgers, “Kaiho Yusho & Hasegawa Tohaku” (University of Kansas, 1969) pl. 26.
Tohaku, Yosho, Suiboku bijutsu takei, vol. 9 (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1973) pl. 132-133.
Junkichi Mayuyama, Japanese Art in the West ( Tokyo: Mayuyama & Co., 1966) 160-161, pl. 188.
Kawai Mastomo, Nihon bijutsu kaiga zenshu, vol. 11, Yusho/Togan (Tokyo: The Zauho Press, 1978) 125, 131, fig. 11, pl. 14, 23.
Takada Tsuneo, Zaigai nihon no shihō, vol. 4, Byōbu-ga (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbun-sha, 1980) 136, pl. 62-63.
Takashima Shūji, Kindai no yōga, vol 27, Japanese paintings (Tokyo: Japan Art Center, 1980) 131, no. 71, pl. 116-117.
Stephen Addiss, Oriental Art, vol. XXIV (Summer 1978) 230, no. 2, fig. 3
Kyoto kokuritsu hakubutsukan, Kyoto kokuritsu hakubutsukan kaikan hyakunijusshunen kinen tokubetsu tenran kai Kaihō Yūshō (Japan: Manichi Newspapers, 2017) 45, 307, VII, no.76.
Murase Miyeko, Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting ( New York: George Braziller, 1990) 81-86.
Kawai Masatomo and Wakasaka Atsushi, eds., Nihon bijutsu zenshū, vol. 17, Momoyama no shōbyōga; Eitoku, tōhaku, yūshō (Tokyo: Gakken, 1989) 213.
