Poem (waka) on May Rain Calligrapher: Unknown

ca. 1600

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Shikishi: ink on gold-flecked and gold-painted paper

Dimensions

sheet: 8 1/2 × 7 1/4 in. (21.6 × 18.4 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Alex Kerr, B.A. 1974

Accession Number

2016.87.34

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Momoyama period (1573–1615)

Classification

Calligraphy

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Alex Kerr collection, Kyoto, Japan. Purchased from Kyoto auction houses and art dealers since the 1970s.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2016), 17
  • Sadako Ohki, "Japanese Calligraphy at Yale: From Sutra to the Avant-Garde," Arts of Asia (March–April 2018), 91, fig. 9
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

calligraphy

Inscriptions

Samidare (satsuki ame) ni / mono omoi wo reba / hototogizu / yofukaku nakite / idzuchi yukunramu\r\n\r\nIn the early summer rain / While deep in thought / The cuckoo / Sang out in the (dead of night) (blackness of the night) (late night) / Which direction did it fly?\r\n\r\n五月雨尓　物於もひをれ八　郭公　夜婦可く鳴天　い徒ち行く(那?)羅ん\r\n\r\n(五月雨に 物思ひをれば 郭公 夜深く鳴きて いづち行くらむ)\r\n\r\n紀友則　古今和歌集153\r\n\r\nWhen in the drizzling rain,\r\nI’m sunk in gloomy thoughts,\r\nA cuckoo\r\nSings in night’s depths:\r\nAnd where might it be going?\r\n\r\nhttp://www.wakapoetry.net/kks-iii-153/\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSatsuki ame (samidare) ni / monoomoi wo reba / hototogizu / yobukaku nakite / idzuchi yukuramu\r\n\r\nIn the early summer rain / While deep in thought / The cuckoo / Sang out in the (dead of night) (blackness of the night) (late night) / Which direction did it fly?\r\n\r\n五月雨尓　物於もひをれ　郭公　夜婦可く鳴天　い徒ち行く羅ん\r\n\r\n\r\n(五月雨に  物思ひをれば  郭公  夜深く鳴きて  いづち行くらむ) Whose waka? .

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