Lot 19: Style of Kobori Enshu (1579-1647)

Style of Kobori Enshu (1579-1647) Miwayama, circa 1620-50 Poem card mounted as hanging scroll; ink on paper 8¼ x 7 3/8in. (21 x 18.8cm.)

21 x 18.8cm.

circa 1620

The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1970

John M. Rosenfield with Fumiko E. Cranston, Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers, Vol. 1 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1999), pp. 196-97, no. 40. John Rosenfield and Shujiro Shimada, Traditions of Japanese Art: Selections from the Kimiko and John Powers Collection (Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1970), no. 99.

The poem has been translated as follows: Mt. Miwa On this very day, Who shall hear the cry Of the cuckoo flying East of Miwa? Translation by Fumiko E. Cranston from Extraordinary Persons, Vol. 1 (1999), p. 197.