Minneapolis Institute of Art
Du Fu's Over the Blue River
Calligrapher: Sasaki ShōgenLinkedCulture matchlcp-e5139f7c7155
- Date
- late 17th–early 18th century
- Medium
- Hanging scroll, ink on paper
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 118712
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
“Over the blue river, birds exceedingly white; On the green mountains, flowers about to blaze. This spring we view is also passing by, When will the time come for me to return?” 江碧鳥逾白 山青花欲燃 今春看又過 何日是歸年 Du Fu (712–770) was a renowned Chinese poet whose quatrain here expresses the wish to return. Shōgen therefore exaggerates that character (in the left column) greatly by writing it three times as large. Japan, Asia
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- Credit line
- Gift of Stephen Addiss and Audrey Yoshiko Seo
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