Spring Cleaning late 18th–early 19th century Yokoi Kinkoku As spring returns to the mountains, men sweep the gardens and repair the thatched roofs of a creekside residence in this painting by the Nanga artist Yokoi Kinkoku. Much of what we know about Kinkoku's life and career can be gleaned from his autobiography, the Kinkoku D?jin go-ichidai ki. Born in ?tsu, a town near Kyoto on the shores of Lake Biwa in ?mi Province, Kinkoku became a Buddhist monk as a young man and in adulthood practiced extreme austerities as a follower of the syncretic Shugend? sect. Traveling widely and never tied to a

Spring Cleaning late 18th–early 19th century Yokoi Kinkoku As spring returns to the mountains, men sweep the gardens and repair the thatched roofs of a creekside residence in this painting by the Nanga artist Yokoi Kinkoku. Much of what we know about Kinkoku's life and career can be gleaned from his autobiography, the Kinkoku D?jin go-ichidai ki. Born in ?tsu, a town near Kyoto on the shores of Lake Biwa in ?mi Province, Kinkoku became a Buddhist monk as a young man and in adulthood practiced extreme austerities as a follower of the syncretic Shugend? sect. Traveling widely and never tied to a single teacher, Kinkoku drew from a variety of sources for his painting but is most closely associated with the great Yosa Buson (1716–1783), whose influence is apparent throughout Kinkoku's body of work. Although he never actually studied directly with Buson, so close to Buson's style was Kinkoku's that he gained the nickname "Buson of ?mi Province" (?mi Buson). This work by Kinkoku is in fact a copy of a painting created by Buson in 1774, although its greater sense of spontaneity and untrammeled brushwork, characteristic of Kinkoku's mature works, differentiate it from the earlier Spring Cleaning. Yokoi Kinkoku (Japanese, 1761–1832). Japan. late 18th–early 19th century. Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615–1868). Paintings

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