Interpretation
Information
- Title
- Selections from the New Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Shinkokin wakashū) with Printed Designs of Plants and Animals
- Object Number
- 2003-94
- Description
Calligraphic transcription of ten verses from the poetry anthology Shinkokin wakashū新古今和歌集 (presented in 1205). Eleven sheets decorated on front and back. Most sheets measure about 24 to 25 cm. high by 36 to 37cm. wide, about the same size as Saga-bon cover opened flat, and a center crease indicates they may originally have been used in a book format. The third sheet is only 19.3 cm wide, and the two small black seals imprinted on the joints are missing between the 3d and 4th sheets on the back. This indicates that third sheet has been cut down. The eleventh sheet is only 28.8 cm. wide and does not bear a Kōetsu seal, which suggests this was not the end to the original scroll.
On the obverse side are mica-printed designs of paulownia, floating grasses (ukikiusa), deer and trees, deer in mist, flowering plum branches, water and dragonflies, and bamboo and tree branches. On the reverse are designs of baskets in waves, bamboo and tree branches, azalea, deer and trees, floating grasses, flying cranes, deer in mist, hydrangea, plum shoots, hill and stand, and deer with tree.
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and mica on colored paper
- Dates
- before 1615
- Dimensions
- 24.1 x 414.5 cm. (9 1/2 x 163 3/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund; Executive Committee of The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection exhibition in Japan; and the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
- Culture
- Japanese
- Period
- Edo period
- Place made
- Japan
- Inscriptions
- Seals: Unidentified – (2) black square; black round seal on reverse
- Materials
– Yasuda Yakihiko 安田靫彦, 1884-1978 (Japan).
– Manno Art Museum (Osaka, Japan).
– Sebastian Izzard LLC on consignment from London Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2003.
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2003," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 63 (2004): p. 101-141., p. 130, 132, illus.
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 46-47 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 46
- An Educated Eye: The Princeton University Art Museum Collection (Friday, February 22, 2008 - Sunday, June 15, 2008)
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