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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

1606
calligraphy by

Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦

(Japanese, 1558–1637)

Tawaraya Sōtatsu 俵屋宗達

(Japanese, c. 1570-c. 1640)
Japan, Momoyama (1573-1615) - Edo (1615-1868) periods
card mounted on a hanging scroll; gold, silver, and ink on paper
Overall: 132.1 x 43.2 cm (52 x 17 in.); Painting only: 20 x 17.4 cm (7 7/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1987.60
Location: not on view
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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."
Poem-card from the Shinkokin wakashu (New Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times) with Design of Pine on a Beach

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

1606

Hon'ami Kōetsu, Tawaraya Sōtatsu

(Japanese, 1558–1637), (Japanese, c. 1570-c. 1640)
Japan, Momoyama (1573-1615) - Edo (1615-1868) periods

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