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Gedicht
Also titled Poem
Hakugan (1634–1673)
1657
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 0 cm x width 0 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift F. Hess, 2018)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
This poem questions the relationship between humankind and the cosmos. The Chinese Zen monk Hakugan gazed at the night sky and wondered whether or not the alignment of the Great Bear in the constellation of stars would bring him good fortune.
