1985.666: Water Plant (Ukikusa) and Zen Aphorism
Paintings with Calligraphy
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1985.666
- People
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Daishin Gitō, Japanese (1657 - 1730)
- Title
- Water Plant (Ukikusa) and Zen Aphorism
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Ukikusa
- Classification
- Paintings with Calligraphy
- Work Type
- painting with calligraphy, hanging scroll
- Date
- c. 1720
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/199402
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
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painting proper: 28 x 55.3 cm (11 x 21 3/4 in.)
overall including cord and roller ends: 113 x 62.9 cm (44 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Murasakino Kyōmyōshi
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inscription: Ukikusa no shōzuru kō wa, yayoi sue; mata ya fuyu kujiku ukikusa yomogi no kusabana -- Murasakino Kyōmyōshi
Late spring is the season when the waterweeds appear; the densely flowering waterweed and sagebush that winter will once more destroy. - signature: signature: Murasakino Kyōmyōshi
- seal: Daishin (rectangular seal)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
- Accession Year
- 1985
- Object Number
- 1985.666
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- John M. Rosenfield, Fumiko Cranston, and Edwin A. Cranston, The Courtly Tradition in Japanese Art and Literature: Selections from the Hofer and Hyde Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), Cat. No. 39 / p. 123
- John M. Rosenfield, The Japanese Courtier: Painting, Calligraphy, and Poetry from the Fogg Art Museum, the Philip Hofer Collection (With a Complementary Selection of Lacquers and Other Arts of Japan from the Collection of F. Bailey Vanderhoef, Jr.), exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA, 1980), Cat. No. 24 / p. 39 (not illustrated)
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2740 Buddhist II, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/09/2015 - 06/02/2016
Verification Level
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