The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
Working with Right Principles
2009
(Japanese, born 1949)
Sheet: 97 x 170 cm (38 3/16 x 66 15/16 in.); Image: 97 x 110 cm (38 3/16 x 43 5/16 in.); Framed: 110 x 181 cm (43 5/16 x 71 1/4 in.)
Gift of the Artist 2011.19
Location: not on view
Description
From right to left, the three characters here translate to "Working with Right Principles." Takaki Seiu stressed righteousness, quoting the scholar Mao’s footnote to poems in The Book of Songs, the oldest Chinese classical poetry anthology. The phrase can also allude to advising others with the right principle.- Cleveland Museum of Art, and Sŏn Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 97-98, no. 98
- The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).
- {{cite web|title=Working with Right Principles|url=false|author=Takaki Seiu|year=2009|access-date=23 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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