Description
Hon’ami Kōetsu was a calligrapher and craftsman who frequently collaborated with the painter Tawaraya Sōtatsu, considered the first master of the Rinpa school. Kōetsu brushed seven poems from the autumn section of a poetry anthology onto dyed paper with motifs designed and printed in gold and silver by Sōtatsu.
Provenance
(Harry C. Nail, Jr. [1909-1990], El Dorado, Arkansas, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1966); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1966-)
Selections from the New Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Shinkokin wakashū) with Printed Designs of Chinese Lions and Crab Finger Grass
early 1600s
Accession Number
1966.118
Medium
handscroll; ink, gold, and silver on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 23.2 x 346.6 cm (9 1/8 x 136 7/16 in.)
Classification
Calligraphy
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund
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