Matsumura Goshun

Cat with Poems: Pictorial Parody of Priest Saigyo's Legend

18th century

Dating

Within this century

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Image: 39 3/8 × 11 11/16 in. (100 × 29.7 cm) Overall with mounting: 74 5/8 × 15 13/16 in. (189.5 × 40.2 cm) Overall with knobs: 74 5/8 × 17 1/2 in. (189.5 × 44.5 cm)

Collection no.

1971.190

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Matsumura Goshun. Cat with Poems: Pictorial Parody of Priest Saigyo's Legend. Matsumura Goshun; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1971. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.