Catalogue information
Kamakura period, 13th century
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
23.4 x 14.1 cm (9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 516 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
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[Poem 8] A spring poem among one hundred poems composed. // Kōmyōbuji nyūdō Former Regent Minister of the Left Michiie // The sun rises, opening up the heaven’s door. / The spring of the divine age must have arrived.
[Poem 9] Kino Tsurayuki
[ca. 872–945] // Spring mist has risen, yet at Yoshino mountains / snow is falling even today.