尾形乾山筆 定家詠十二ヶ月和歌 花鳥図 『拾遺愚草』 より四月|“Fourth Month” from Fujiwara no Teika’s “Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months”
Ogata Kenzan
1743 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper · Asian Art
Kenzan, brother of the painter and designer Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716), was born into a wealthy merchant family in Kyoto. He is best known for his ceramic wares, having studied with the great Kyoto potter Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646–94), but he was also a gifted painter and calligrapher. He took these poems from the Shūigusō (Gleaning of Worthless Weeds), a collection of verse by the poet and calligrapher Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241). They read: Robes of white cloth should be aired out, they say, just when summer arrives and deutzia flowers in bloom cause the hedge to droop. In the village of Shinobu where the cuckoo dwells, its cry is now heard, while we await next month when deutzia flowers bloom.
- Artist
- Ogata Kenzan
- Date
- 1743
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color 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
