Woodcutters and Fishermen ca. 1790–95 Matsumura Goshun Shij? Street in central Kyoto, where Goshun opened the studio that came to be known as the Shij? school, was also the site of the artist’s residence. Born to a family of officials at the government mint, Goshun studied with the Nanga, or literati school, artist Yosa Buson (1716–1783). Following several years as a Buddhist monk in Ikeda, he joined a group of artists in Kyoto in 1787 to work with Maruyama ?kyo (1733–1795), whose school combined traditional methods of Japanese painting with aspects of Western realism and this c

Woodcutters and Fishermen ca. 1790–95 Matsumura Goshun Shij? Street in central Kyoto, where Goshun opened the studio that came to be known as the Shij? school, was also the site of the artist’s residence. Born to a family of officials at the government mint, Goshun studied with the Nanga, or literati school, artist Yosa Buson (1716–1783). Following several years as a Buddhist monk in Ikeda, he joined a group of artists in Kyoto in 1787 to work with Maruyama ?kyo (1733–1795), whose school combined traditional methods of Japanese painting with aspects of Western realism and this composition, Chinese fishermen and woodcutters, their faces weathered and animated, move through a hazy spring landscape in which a hint of linear perspective indicative of ?kyo’s influence melds with the lyricism that Goshun absorbed from Buson. The artist chose fishermen to symbolize the purity of the life of the recluse-scholar, following in the tradition of Chinese literati Woodcutters and Fishermen. Matsumura Goshun (Japanese, 1752–1811). Japan. ca. 1790–95. Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615–1868). Screens

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