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Poem from the "Collection of Ancient and Modern Verse"

古今和歌集の内 和歌一首

2011

Takaki Seikaku 高木聖鶴

(Japanese, 1923–2017)
Culture
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)
Medium
hanging scroll; ink on dyed paper with cut gold
Measurements
Sheet: 36 x 50 cm (14 3/16 x 19 11/16 in.); Image: 18.5 x 21.5 cm (7 5/16 x 8 7/16 in.); Mounted: 120 x 40 cm (47 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Artist 2011.22
Copyright
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Location
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Poem number 355 from the Collection of Ancient and Modern Verse dates to the ninth century.

Description

This calligraphy is a copy of an ancient Japanese poem originally composed to celebrate someone’s 60th birthday, when people are traditionally considered to enter a new phase of life. It expresses hopes for longevity, symbolized by a bird and animal who legendarily have long lives. It says:

The crane and the turtle
after the passage of a thousand years
meet I know not what,
yet with all the longing of my heart,
that is what I wish for you.
A horizontally oriented hanging scroll features six vertical rows of swirling Japanese text on a light red-pink paper dotted with rectangles and flecks of gold. On the lower left is a circular red stamp with more characters. The black ink characters are thin, swirling almost continuously down the page in various lengths and a larger gap dividing the lines into groups of three and three.

Poem from the "Collection of Ancient and Modern Verse"

2011

Takaki Seikaku

(Japanese, 1923–2017)
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)

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