# Snipe Over a Marsh from the Three Dusks - By: Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674) - Date: 1665 - Medium: Ink and color on silk - Classification: Paintings - Dimensions: H x W (image): 30.5 × 44.9 cm (12 × 17 11/16 in) - Culture: Japanese - Credit line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer - Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.372/) - Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) - Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/9297a5f821a2439cca21e110110bd703.jpg - Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words) The "Three Dusks" or "Three Evening Poems" is a famous group of three poems by three different authors. The poems are recorded in the imperial poetry anthology Shin kokinshu, compiled in the early thirteenth century. The poem below, composed by the Buddhist monk Saigyo (1118-1190), is inscribed on this painting by Kano Tan'yu, one of the leading artists of the seventeenth century.