East Asian Art Calligraphy of a Poem by Ono no Komachi Made in Japan, AsiaEdo Period (1615-1868), c. 1770 Ike Taiga, Japanese, 1723 - 1776 Ink on paper; mounted as a hanging scroll Currently not on view 1991-49-1 Purchased with the Henry B. Keep Fund and the J. Stogdell Stokes Fund, 1991 |
LabelThis is a rare example of Taiga's large-scale calligraphy in the Japanese hiragana syllabary. The four Chinese characters at the beginning are the name of the ninth-century poetess Ono no Komachi, and the rest is the hiragana syllabic text of one of her verses. This verse is one of her best known:Was it that I fell asleep |
