The Burke Collection
Folding Fans with Calligraphy
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544-1

Artist

Kamata Ukei

(鎌田雨溪; b. 1948)

Catalogue information

Ca. 1998

Silk hanging with folding fans; ink on paper

215 x 98.8 cm (84 5/8 x 38 7/8 in.)

Gift from the artist to the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2006

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Additional details

D544-1
D544-1
D544-2
D544-3

Text

[from top to bottom] [fan 1] If Heaven and Earth should cease to be, / we would stop meeting. / However, this will never happen.

[fan 2] halfway drunk

[fan 3] When I sing, the moon drifts. / When I dance, my shadow wavers.

[fan 4] peacefulness

Signatures

[on fans 1–3] Ukei sho

Seals

[on fans 1, 2] Rofūan; [on fan 4] Ukei