Minneapolis Institute of Art

Du Fu's Over the Blue River

Calligrapher: Sasaki Shōgen

Date: late 17th–early 18th century
Medium: Hanging scroll, ink on paper
Department: Asian Art
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Art

“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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