The Burke Collection
Twelve poems from Shin kokin wakashū (新古今和歌集)
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Artists

Hon’ami Kōetsu

(本阿弥光悦; 1558–1637)

follower of Tawaraya Sōtatsu

(俵屋宗達; d. ca. 1640)

Catalogue information

Edo period

Handscroll (detail); ink and printed with gold on silk

33.7 x 489.8 cm (13 1/4 in. x 16 ft. 7/8 in.)

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

Ex Coll.: Marquis Asano, Tokyo

Literature

Murase 1975, no. 50
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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Yamane Yūzō et al. 1978, pp. 82–83, fig. 50
Yamane Yūzō et al.
1978
Kōetsu sho Sōtatsu kingindei-e (Kōetsu’s calligraphy on gold and silver paintings by Sōtatsu). Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun-sha.

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Tokyo National Museum 1978, no. 265
Tokyo National Museum
1978
Nihon no sho (Japanese calligraphy). Exh. cat. Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum.

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Yamane Yūzō 1977–80, vol. 5 (1978), pp. 82–83, fig. 50
Yamane Yūzō
1977–80
[Editor]. Rinpa kaiga zenshū (Survey of Rinpa paintings). Vols. 1–2, Sōtatsu ha I–II. Vols. 3–4, Korin ha I–II. Vol. 5, Hōitsu ha. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.

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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 77
Tokyo National Museum
1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.

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Avitabile 1990, no. 53
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. 85.
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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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 177 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D177-1
D177-1

Text

[Poem 519]

Cold wakens me / this dawn in the ninth month. / Chill winds have beckoned forth the frost.

[Poem 520]

The color of autumn deepens on the Isle of Awaji. / The salty breeze over the ocean fans away / the fading glow of the morning moon.

[Poem 525]

Showers on the mountains in these autumn days. / How are the trees at Mount Mimuro, / where the ancient gods have resided so long?

[Poem 526]

Fallen leaves crowd the waters of the Suzuka River. / I count the days and listen to the sleet / as it falls on the fields of Yamada.

[on reverse] inscribed by Akiba Kōan

A handscroll, formerly owned by Kōan, was used as a model by Yamaga Kageyu, who was in the service of the Lord Asano Tajima no kami.

Signature

Kōetsu, 1616

Seals

Kōetsu; [on reverse] Kamishi Sōji