Autumn Ivy. Artist: Ogata Kenzan (Japanese, 1663-1743). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image: 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. (21.3 x 27.6 cm)Overall: 44 7/8 x 22 1/4 in. (114 x 56.5 cm). Date: after 1732.Although ceramics were his forte, Kenzan occasionally tested his skills as a painter, and there is a rugged energy to his works on paper that effectively complements his idiosyncratic, expressive calligraphy. This image recalls a famous episode from the tenth-century Ise Stories (Ise monogatari) in which the protagonist encounters an itinerant monk along an ivy-strewn path on Mount Utsu.Kenzan's freely inscribed waka (thirty-one syllable Japanese poem) reads:Kakaru shimowaga aki naranumatsukaze ychiru o urami no tsuta no momijibaThough not yet winds through the pinesblow all around and I dread they'll scatterthe crimson leaves of ivy. --Trans. John T. Carpenter. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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Autumn Ivy. Artist: Ogata Kenzan (Japanese, 1663-1743). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image: 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. (21.3 x 27.6 cm)Overall: 44 7/8 x 22 1/4 in. (114 x 56.5 cm). Date: after 1732.Although ceramics were his forte, Kenzan occasionally tested his skills as a painter, and there is a rugged energy to his works on paper that effectively complements his idiosyncratic, expressive calligraphy. This image recalls a famous episode from the tenth-century Ise Stories (Ise monogatari) in which the protagonist encounters an itinerant monk along an ivy-strewn path on Mount Utsu.Kenzan's freely inscribed waka (thirty-one syllable Japanese poem) reads:Kakaru shimowaga aki naranumatsukaze ychiru o urami no tsuta no momijibaThough not yet winds through the pinesblow all around and I dread they'll scatterthe crimson leaves of ivy. --Trans. John T. Carpenter. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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