Catalogue information
Muromachi period, first half of 15th century
Handscroll fragment, mounted as hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
29 x 41.2 cm (11 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III
Literature
Mori Tōru 1978, pl. 11-3
; 1978
Uta awase-e no kenkyū: Kasen-e (Studies of paintings of poetry competitions: Portraits of the Immortal Poets). Rev. ed. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten.
Mori Tōru 1979, pl. 100
; 1979
[Editor]. Sanjūrokkasen-e (Portraits of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets). Shinshū Nihon emakimono zenshū (Survey of Japanese handscroll paintings: New edition), 19. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten.
Murase 2000, no. 41.
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 46 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
Koōgimi
Held the title of Nyo Kurōdo during the time of the ex-Emperor Sanjō, also known as Sakon. Active during the reigns of Emperors Ichijō
[r. 986–1010] and Sanjō
[r. 1011–15].
Nightly visits across Iwabashi stopped. / When morning came, / sadness surrounded Mount Katsuragi
.