The Burke Collection
Two poems from Ogura hyakunin isshu (小倉百人一首)
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Artists

Hon’ami Kōetsu

(本阿弥光悦; 1558–1637)

Tawaraya Sōtatsu

(俵屋宗達; d. ca. 1640)

Catalogue information

Momoyama period, early 17th century

Fragment of a handscroll, mounted as hanging scroll; ink, silver, and gold on paper

32.8 x 60.3 cm (12 7/8 x 23 3/4 in.)

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

Ex Coll.: Asada

Literature

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Komatsu Shigemi 1981, pl. 13
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[Editor]. Kan’ei sanpitsu (Three great calligraphers of the Kan’ei era). Nihon no sho (Japanese calligraphy), 10. Tokyo: Chūōkōronsha.

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[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

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Fischer 2000, pp. 197–98, no. 63
Fischer, Felice
2000
With Edwin A. Cranston et al. The Arts of Hon’ami Kōetsu: Japanese Renaissance Master. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Murase 2000, no. 84
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2000
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Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 91
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Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.

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Graham 2007, no. 6.10.
Graham, Patricia Jane
2007
Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 174 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

Text

Sakyō Dayū Akisuke // Breezes blow long / trailing clouds / across the sky / on this dark / autumn night. / Through breaks / the moon / so clear, so bright!

Taikenmon’in Horikawa // I do not know if you / will always be true. / This morning after you left, / I recalled your vows to me / looking at my long black hair / so disheveled— / like the tangles in my heart.