Poet Mibu no Tadami from an Album of 36 Immortal Poets (Sanjū-roku kasen) Calligrapher: Higashi-bōjō Chōsei (Japanese)

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ca. 1770

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Shikishi pasted on album leaf: ink and color on gold paper

Dimensions

sheet (Poem): 8 3/8 × 7 3/16 in. (21.3 × 18.3 cm)
sheet (Painting): 9 1/4 × 8 7/8 in. (23.5 × 22.5 cm)
with mounting: 11 15/16 × 20 13/16 in. (30.4 × 52.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Alex Kerr, B.A. 1974

Accession Number

2016.87.37.35a-b

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Paintings

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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
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Inscriptions

koi su chō / waga na wa madaki / tachi ni keri / hito shirezu koso / omoi someshi ka\r\n\r\nこひすてふ　わか名はまだき　立ちにけり　人しれずこそ　思ひそめしか\r\n\r\nこひ寿(春?)天ふ　我可名八またき　堂ち尓介り　人し連徒古處　於もひ曽め志可\r\n\r\nThough, indeed, I love,\r\nYet, the rumor of my love\r\nHad gone far and wide,\r\nWhen no man, ere then, could know\r\nThat I had begun to love.\r\nby Clay MacCauley\r\nhttp://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/macauley.html\r\n\r\n04/18/19 K.N.\r\n----------\r\nkoi su chou / waga na wa madaki / tachi ni keri / hito shirezu koso / omoi someshi ka\r\n\r\nThe rumor of my love / Though it all was true / Had spread across the land / But other men should not have known / That I have begun to love\r\nTranslation source:\r\nBhattacharya, Sagnik. A Hundred Autumn Leaves: The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Partridge Publishing, 2015. Google Books. Web. 4/14/16. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nこひすてふ　わか名はまだき　立ちにけり　人しれずこそ　思ひそめしか\r\n\r\n恋ひ寿天ふ　我可名八またき　堂ち尓けり　人し連徒右處　於もひ曽め志可

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