Meeting with a Friend on an Autumn Day

Noro Kaiseki

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The artist's long inscription confirms that the precise representation of seasonal conditions was less important to him in this work than his feelings about the time of year and his relationship to the entire tradition of literati culture in China and Japan. The colophon, which was based on a poem by Shen Zhou (1427–1509), a noted Ming Chinese painter, also indicates that the work was created during the visit of a close friend named Nankai and was intended for Kōhō, a monk-painter from Echigo (now Niigata Prefecture). Noro Kaiseki, a nanga artist who trained under Ike Taiga (1723–1776), worked in the southern province of Wakayama and published a collection of writings entitled Gadan (Chats on Paintings).

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.

Metropolitan Museum of Art