Hon'ami Kōetsu

Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570–c. 1640)

Tawaraya Sōtatsu

Tawaraya Sotatsu and Hon’ami Koetsu are both associated with the founding of the Rimpa school of Japanese painting. In this poem-card––one of 16 that survive––Tawaraya painted the gold and silver design, over which Hon’ami recorded poems from Shinkokin wakashu. The verses read from top to bottom and from right to left: "Even as I gaze, the thought of it is lonely. High in the heavens the moon-capital lies still in the sky of its dawning."

The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).

The Year in Review for 1987

Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4-December 11, 1988).

Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615)

Rimpa Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989).

Rimpa Painting

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection

The Arts of Hon'ami Koetsu: Japanese Renaissance Master. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (July 29-October 29, 2000).

The Arts of Hon'ami Koetsu: Japanese Renaissance Master

The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).

The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art

Sotatsu: Making Waves. National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (October 24, 2015-January 31, 2016).

Sotatsu: Making Waves

Philadelphia Museum of Art "The Art of Hon'ami Koetsu: Japanese Renaissance Master" 7/29/00 - 10/29/00, exh. cat. no. 48, p. 88.

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121; March 12, 2004 - July 13, 2004.

Freer Gallery of Art. Smithsonian Institution, Washingtonian, DC. (10/24/2015 - 1/31/2016) "Sotatsu: Making Waves", cat. no. 18, p. 210.

A vertically oriented ink work on stained paper features dark, amorphous clouds atop horizontal bands of gray and gold. Stylized gold pine trees and fluid calligraphic strokes are scattered throughout. The worn metallic gold contrasts with heavy black ink splotches. Repeated horizontal lines define the landscape, while frenetic, fluid marks drift across the center. Textured remnants of ink and gold leaf reveal the paper's aged surface in this atmospheric composition.

(Shunichi Yabumoto Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Poem-card from the Shinkokin wakashu (New Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times) with Design of Pine on a Beach

Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦

Tawaraya Sōtatsu 俵屋宗達

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Poem-card from the Shinkokin wakashu (New Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times) with Design of Pine on a Beach

Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦

Tawaraya Sōtatsu 俵屋宗達

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Poem-card from the Shinkokin wakashu (New Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times) with Design of Pine on a Beach

Hon'ami Kōetsu, Tawaraya Sōtatsu

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