# On one side Narihira and the pilgrim; on the other, chrysanthemums and a brook

- By: Ogata Korin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716)
- Date: late 17th- early 18th century
- Medium: Ink, color and gold on paper
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: H x W: 35.6 x 22.7 cm (14 x 8 15/16 in)
- Culture: Japanese
- Credit line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1903.1/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/055bd39e9443e1de847bc72e58f4c979.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

On one side of this circular fan is a painting illustrating a passage from the Tales of Ise, a work of narratives and poems probably composed in the tenth century by an unknown author. In this passage, travelers encounter a dark pass through the mountains. They sense the desolate remoteness from their familiar world in Kyoto and express this feeling in a poem: