Artist: Konoe Sakihisa
Date: 601
Size: 33.3cm x 47.3cm
Technique: Paper
This handscroll section brilliantly encapsulates the elegance of Momoyama court calligraphy, here inscribed on sumptuously decorated paper with chrysanthemums and pampas grasses in gold and silver. The “cloud-patterned paper” (kumogami), featuring blue- and purple-dyed undulating cloud motifs, evokes the aesthetic sensibilities of the ancient Heian court. The calligrapher, Konoe Sakihisa, a courtier-poet of high rank, was recognized as one of the most talented calligraphers of his day. Both texts refer to chrysanthemums and are included in the autumn section of Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing, the influential anthology compiled by courtier-poet Fujiwara no Kintō about 1014. The Chinese couplet by Bai Juyi (772–846) is written in kanji staggered in four columns; at left are two columns of elegant kana representing the first half of a waka by Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (died ca. 907).
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