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本阿弥光悦書 木版下絵和歌巻断簡|Twelve Poems from the New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern
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本阿弥光悦書 木版下絵和歌巻断簡|Twelve Poems from the New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern

Medium

Handscroll; ink and gold on silk

Tags

Dimensions

Image: 13 3/8 in. × 16 ft. 1/8 in. (34 × 488 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015

Classification

Paintings

Department

Asian Art

Culture

Japan

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Rights

Public Domain

About Hon'ami Kōetsu

1558–1638Japan

Famed as a calligrapher, artist, and sword connoisseur.