蔦紅葉図|Autumn Ivy
Ogata Kenzan
after 1732 · Album leaf mounted as a hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper · Asian Art
Born into Kyoto’s cultured merchant class, Kenzan was best known for his ceramic wares but was also a highly regarded calligrapher. Kenzan’s individualistic, expressive inscription of a poem referring to future winds scattering crimson leaves of ivy, recalls a famous scene from the tenth-century Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari), in which a courtier, exiled from the capital, encounters an itinerant monk on an ivy- strewn path on Mount Utsu. Kakaru shimo waga aki naranu matsukaze y chiru o urami no tsuta no momijiba Though not yet winds through the pines blow all around and I dread they’ll scatter the crimson leaves of ivy. –Trans. John T. Carpenter
- Artist
- Ogata Kenzan
- Date
- after 1732
- Medium
- Album leaf mounted as a hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975
