Artist
Yokoi Kinkoku
(横井金谷; 1761–1832)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 19th century
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
80.1 x 150.1 cm (31 1/2 x 59 1/8 in.)
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 320 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
by Kinkoku
Alone it towers above the white clouds. / Who can help feeling the chill of the snow vapor? / Viewed from any angle, it has no front or back, / just erupts from midair to catch people’s eyes.
Signature
Kinkoku Dōjin painted and inscribed
Seals
At age fifty-five I set my mind on learning ; Kōmori Dōjin
Supplementary Transcriptions
Text
魏[巍]然獨露白雲間﹐
雪氣誰人不覺寒。
八面都無向背處﹐
從空突出與人看。
Signature
金谷道人寫書。
Seals
蝙蝠道人（朱文長方印）(relief, rectangle)
吾五十有五而志於學（朱文長方印）1 (relief, rectangle)
Notes
1. The legend of the seal is appropriated with a playful twist from Confucius’s (551-479 B.C.E.) autobiographical statement “At age fifteen I set my mind on learning”（吾十有五而志於學）. See the Analects (論語), chapter 2 “On governance” (為政).