On one side Narihira and the pilgrim; on the other, chrysanthemums and a brook
Ogata Kōrin 尾形光琳
1615
- Medium
- Ink, color and gold on paper
- Genre
- Paintings
Styles
Tags
PilgrimageJapanese ArtriversEdo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)ArtCharles Lang Freer collection
About
On one side of this circular fan is a painting illustrating a passage from the Tales of Ise, a work of narratives and poems probably composed in the tenth century by an unknown author. In this passage, travelers encounter a dark pass through the mountains. They sense the desolate remoteness from their familiar world in Kyoto and express this feeling in a poem: