Catalogue information
Kamakura period, early 14th century
Handscroll fragment, mounted as hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
28.7 x 37.5 cm (11 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Sekido Akihiko, Nagoya
Literature
Shimonaka Kunihiko 1954–68, vol. 19 (1965), fig. 20
; 1954–68
[Editor]. Shodō zenshū (Compendium of calligraphy). 28 vols. Tokyo: Heibonsha.
Mori Tōru 1965, fig. 8
; 1965
“Jidai fudō uta awase-e ni tsuite” (Paintings of poetry competitions of different periods). Kobijutsu, no. 8 (March): 25–57.
Murase 1975, no. 20
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mori Tōru 1978, p. 99, fig. 7
; 1978
Uta awase-e no kenkyū: Kasen-e (Studies of paintings of poetry competitions: Portraits of the Immortal Poets). Rev. ed. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten.
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 9
; 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.
Wheelwright 1989, no. 3
; 1989
[Editor]. Word in Flower: The Visualization of Classical Literature in Seventeenth-Century Japan. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery.
Avitabile 1990, no. 23
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Murase 2000, no. 39.
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 44 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
Frost has formed / on the trailing tail / of a solitary sleeping pheasant, / its bed illuminated
/ by a cold autumn moon.