Artist
Ogata Sōken
(尾形宗謙; 1621–1687)
Catalogue information
Edo period
Diptych of hanging scrolls; ink and gold on paper
21 x 19.5 cm (8 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Wheelwright 1989, no. 42
; 1989
[Editor]. Word in Flower: The Visualization of Classical Literature in Seventeenth-Century Japan. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery.
Murase 1993, pp. 136–39, no. 35.
1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 528 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
[Poem 111] Tsurayuki
[Ki no Tsurayuki (ca. 872–945)] // With blossom-scent / the fragrance of these garments / takes on new depth / in every gust of wind that blows / beneath the shadow of the trees.
[Poem 969] Travel poem / submitted with a 100-poem sequence / Lord Fujiwara Ietaka
[1158–1237] // Although no promise / kept me here, the night has passed — / Kiyomi Strand / where now the waves are left behind / by the brightening sky of dawn.