The Burke Collection
Poem from Kokin wakashū (古今和歌集)
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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

Album leaf, mounted as hanging scroll; ink and gold on paper

18.3 x 16.3 cm (7 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Ex Coll.: Ōkura

Literature

Murase 1975, no. 48
Murase, Miyeko
1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Avitabile 1990, no. 52
Avitabile, Gunhild
1990
[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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Murase 2000, no. 83.
Murase, Miyeko
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Additional details

Text

[Poem 293] In the harbor where the waters converge, / the waves are deep red / as the floating autumn leaves swirl and eddy.