Mount Fuji of Poems
Mount Fuji of Poems
Mount Fuji of Poems
Mount Fuji of Poems
Mount Fuji of Poems
Mount Fuji of Poems
Mount Fuji of Poems
Mount Fuji of Poems

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Mount Fuji of Poems,

1842

Yamaguchi Shidō 山口志道, 1765–1842
Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
2009-78
This unusual representation of Mount Fuji is composed of poems written by ancient courtiers and emperors. This textbook exercise in the word-image genre was written by Shidō on New Year’s Day of 1842, the very year he passed away at the age of seventy-eight. He was still sprightly at this point, judging from the miniature writing and the joking claim that he had no need of glasses.

Information

Title
Mount Fuji of Poems
Dates

1842

Maker
Yamaguchi Shidō 山口志道
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
image: 31.8 × 46.5 cm (12 1/2 × 18 5/16 in.) mount: 126.4 x 61 cm. (49 3/4 x 24 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2009-78
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Inscription
Inscribed: ことしの朝は 天保十三壬寅年正月　眼鏡不要　七十八年杉庵志道 In the morning of this year New Year, 1842 (year of the Tiger); without the use of eyeglasses By seventy-eight year old Sugi-no-io Shidō
Marks/Labels/Seals
"Sugi-no-io" 杉庵, square, upper seal at bottom left Artist, "Shidō" 志道, square, lower seal at bottom left On top of the mountain: seal of the North Star with the character ran 覧
Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period)
Type
scroll paintings, hanging scrolls, japanese painting styles, calligraphy (visual work)
Materials
ink, paper (fiber product)
Subject
poems, word-images, views, mountains

–2009 Erik Thomsen LLC Asian Art (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2009.

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