小島宗真書 尾形宗謙 (下絵) 續千載集抄和歌巻|Waka poems from the Collection of Poems of a Thousand Years, Continued
Ogata Sōken|Kojima Sōshin
1651 · Handscroll; ink and color on silk · Asian Art
Elegantly brushed on lavishly decorated paper by the Kyoto calligrapher Kojima Sōshin, this series of classical waka is drawn from the Collection of Poems of a Thousand Years, Continued (Shoku senzai wakashū), an imperially commissioned anthology of the fourteenth century. Whereas Sōshin applied the very tip of the brush to write in kana, he executed certain Chinese characters on a demonstrably larger scale using the brush’s side.
- Artist
- Ogata Sōken|Kojima Sōshin
- Date
- 1651
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2018
