Lot 3590: Property from a Los Angeles Collector.

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; depicting the poet-monk Saigyo (1118-1191) pausing in his travels to observe a woodcock in a mist-filled marsh; bearing the signature Tanyusai hitsu with seal Morinobu; together with a wooden tomobako, a lengthy hakogaki inscribed above two paper attestations affixed to the lid interior (extensive creasing).
14 7/8 x 36in (37.8 x 91.4cm)

The scene refers to one of Saigyo's most famous poems:

kokoro naki
mi ni mo aware wa
shirarekeri
shigi tatsu sawa no
aki no yugure

I thought I was free
of passions, so this melancholy
comes as surprise:
a woodcock shoots up from marsh
where autumn's twilight falls.

William LaFleur, Awesome Nightfall (2003), p. 68