The Burke Collection
Soshoku’s (Ch. Su Shi, 蘇軾) “Ode to His Second Visit to the Red Cliff” (後赤壁賦)
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Artist

Kano Hōgai

(狩野芳崖; 1828–1888)

Catalogue information

Edo period–Meiji era

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

129.2 x 32.2 cm (50 7/8 x 12 5/8 in.)

Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Additional details

D172-1
D172-1
D172-2

Text

by Hōgai

Ode to the Second Visit to the Red Cliff // On the fifteenth of the tenth month of the same year (1082) I set out on foot from Snow Hall, intending to return to Lin’gao. / Two guests accompanied me as we passed Yellow Dirt Hill. / Dew had fallen and the trees had shed all their leaves. / Our shadows lay on the ground, and we gazed up at the bright moon. / Delighted by our surroundings, we sang back and forth to each other as we walked.

Signature

Hōgai

Seals

Shōzan Nōtan; Sōkō; Sa Furetsu in; Shōzan