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Nakajima Getsuryu's Haiku on Spring

1990s

Takaki Seikaku 高木聖鶴

(Japanese, 1923–2017)

Japan, Heisei period

(1989-2019)

Ink on decorative paper

Image: 36 x 50 cm (14 3/16 x 19 11/16 in.); Overall: 146 x 54.5 cm (57 1/2 x 21 7/16 in.)

Gift of the Artist 2011.20

Location

not on view

Description

Takaki Seikaku, a calligrapher using kana script, was given the Prime Minister Prize at the Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (the Nitten) in 1991 and the Bunkakorosha (Person of Cultural Merit) Award in 2006. He paired Japanese haiku and waka (another classical Japanese verse) on delicate decorative papers. Here, he transcribed Nakajima Getsuryu’s 20th-century haiku; from top to bottom and from right to left, it reads, "In the spring mountain, the melting water is hitting on rocks."

Citations

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Sŏn Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. Mentioned: P. 95; reproduced: P. 90, no. 90

Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, (3/27-8/28/11); "The Lure of Painted Poetry" cat. no. 90

The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).