Artist
Nakahara Nantenbō
(中原南天棒; 1839–1925)
Catalogue information
Taishō era, 1915
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
135.4 x 33.4 cm (53 1/4 x 13 1/8 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 543 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
Flowers exude fragrance / in the moonlight.
Signature
An old man at age seventy-eight, Nantenbō
Seals
[upper right] Nantenbō
; [lower left] kaō
; Seventy plus eight, Nantenbō
; Tōjū
Supplementary Transcriptions
Text
花有清香月有影。1
Signature
七十有八翁南天棒□□□
Seals
南天棒（長方朱文印） (relief, rectangle)
南天棒古希加八（白/朱文方印）(intaglio/relief, square)
鄧州（白文方印）(intaglio, square)
Notes
1. This line may be a variation of the second line of Su Shi’s 蘇軾 (1037-1101) poem “Spring Night” (春宵), which reads, “花有清香月有陰.” The pronunciation and the meaning of 陰and影 are similar.