# Chinese Poems for the Twelve Months

- By: Gion Nankai (Japanese, 1677–1751)
- Date: ca. late 1730s
- Medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink on paper
- Classification: Calligraphy
- Dimensions: Image (each sheet): 50 11/16 × 20 7/8 in. (128.8 × 53 cm) Overall with mounting: 67 9/16 in. × 12 ft. 4 3/8 in. (171.6 × 376.8 cm)
- Culture: Japan
- Credit line: Gift of Stephen Addiss, in honor of John T. Carpenter, 2016
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/733689)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/as/web-large/LC-2016._47a_l_right_cons-002.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)