harvard-art-museums-calligraphy: Spring Shoots II (Wakana: ge), Calligraphic Excerpt from Chapter 35
harvard-art-museums-calligraphy: Spring Shoots II (Wakana: ge), Calligraphic Excerpt from Chapter 35 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), Reizei Tamehiro, Muromachi period, datable to 1509-1510, Harvard Art Museums: CalligraphyMurasaki: Before the dew dries That has clung to the lotus- O fragile fortune- Surely it would be foolish To think I shall not be gone. Genji: Bind we by an oath: Let us be as two dewdrops On one lotus leaf; Do not let us be apart, Dea… Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of AsiaSize: H. 24.3 cm x W. 18.4 cm (9 9/16 x 7 ¼ in.)Medium: The thirty-fifth of a series of 54 kotobagaki (calligraphic album leaves) mounted in an album with illustrations; ink and color on paperhttps://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/199741 -- source link
#reizeitamehiro#museumarchive#calligraphycollection