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
calligraphy by Hon'ami Kōetsu (Japanese, 1558–1637)
decorator Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, c. 1570–c. 1640)
early 1600s
- Medium
- handscroll; ink, gold, and silver on paper
- Classification
- Calligraphy
- Dimensions
- Overall: 23.2 x 346.6 cm (9 1/8 x 136 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
