Catalogue information
Commonly known as Karasumaru-gire (烏丸切)
Late Heian period, 12th century
Page from book, mounted as hanging scroll; ink on paper
20.5 x 12.8 cm (8 1/8 x 5 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 72
; 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.
Avitabile 1990, no. 28.
1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 512 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
…but I believe no white dew taints leaves or grasses. // What sort of dews / turned leaves and grasses / into thousands of different colors / in the autumn field? // Which grasses should I choose / to remind me of the autumn field / where all of them change colors? // Ki no Tomonori
[fl. ca. 890] / Although I am not a deer / who lost its mate, / still I want to moan in the autumn field.