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511-1

Catalogue information

Commonly known as Ishiyama-gire (石山切)

Late Heian period, 12th century

Page from book, mounted as hanging scroll; ink on decorated paper

20.1 x 15.8 cm (7 7/8 x 6 1/4 in.)

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

Ex Coll.: Osaragi Jirō; Nishi Honganji, Kyoto

Literature

Rosenfield 1967, no. 37d
Rosenfield, John M.
1967
Japanese Arts of the Heian Period, 794–1185. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society.

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Murase 1975, no. 19
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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Tokyo National Museum 1978, no. 114
Tokyo National Museum
1978
Nihon no sho (Japanese calligraphy). Exh. cat. Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum.

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Kita Haruchiyo 1985, p. 85
Kita Haruchiyo
1985
“New York Burke Collection Nihon bijutsu meihin ten” (A selection of Japanese art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection). Kobijutsu, no. 75 (July): 79–85.

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Meech-Pekarik 1985, fig. 2
Meech-Pekarik, Julia
1985
“Death of a Samurai.” Apollo 121, no. 276 (February): 108–13.

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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 69
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. 24
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. 20
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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Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 13.
Tsuji Nobuo et al.
2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 511 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

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Text

…the color has deepened. // The man came and stood at her gate; hearing a cuckoo singing in a flowering orange tree, he composed the following verse and sent it to the lady: / Standing at your gate / forlorn am I as the mournful / cuckoo that sings / my sadness from his perch / among the branches of your blossoming orange tree. // To this she replied: / Hardly can he know / what errand brings you here, / the cuckoo in my tree — / Is it not his tuneful nature / thus to come and sing?