Artist
Kano Kōya
(狩野興也; d. 1673)
Catalogue information
Edo period
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
91.3 x 40.8 cm (36 x 16 1/8 in.)
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 152 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Seals
[lower right] Sei
; Gyōbu
Text
by Kishinsō
Teetering on horseback, idly riding backward, / I seek no bosom friends but poetry on my journey. / Who has ever recognized the beauty / of the cloud-piercing Mount Hua, whose blue hue tinges my brows?
Signature
Written by Kishinsō, formerly of Sōjiji
Seals
Sanshin
; Reijun Sokushin
Supplementary Transcriptions
Seals
形部（朱文器形印）(relief, vessel shape)
1 illegible seal （白文鼓形印） (intaglio, drum shape)
Text
搖兀征鞍任倒騎﹐
不尋知己只尋詩。
是中佳致誰曾識﹐
雲破華山青到眉。
Signature
前綱持其心叟書之。
Seals
弎寅（朱文器形印） (relief, vessel shape)
令淳促信（朱文方印） (relief, square)
Notes
1. The character 青can mean both blue and black colors.