Artist
Kojima Sōshin
(小島宗真; 1580–ca. 1656)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 17th century
Album containing 298 calligraphies from Nara–Edo periods; ink, color, and gold on paper
40 x 34.4 cm (15 3/4 x 13 1/2 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Murase 1993, no. 33.
1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 507 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
Ki no Tsurayuki
[ca. 872–945] composed for a folding screen during the Engi era
[901–23] // I thought only pines are evergreens, / but the spring water that flows constantly / also shines in green.