Catalogue information
Commonly known as Imaki-gire (今城切)
Late Heian period, 12th century
Page from book, mounted as hanging scroll; ink on paper
25.3 x 15.9 cm (10 x 6 1/4 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. 74
; 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. 27.
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 514 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
By unknown poet
[Poem 1037] If things have come to this / why not simply say that you no longer love [me] / that our union has broken / like bright jeweled suspenders.
[Poem 1038] Ah for a way to hide myself and peer into each secret recess / within the mysterious heart of one who claims he loves [me].
[Poem 1039] Although I love him / he only says he does not love me / ah no, I must not go on loving / for my love is unavailing.