Catalogue information
Commonly known as Shirakawa-gire (白河切)
Late Heian period, 12th century
Page from book, mounted as hanging scroll; ink on paper
17.6 x 14.9 cm (6 7/8 x 5 7/8 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. 73
; 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. 29.
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 513 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
Response: / White dews that descend / on pine branches in the evening / disappear in the morning. // Unknown poet sent this poem to an acquaintance who is in the service in Yamato: / In return / I yearn for you, / while I remember a young friend in Yamato from the past. // Response: / I was only reminded / of the rice plants in autumn fields. / My memories of them / do not excite me.