The Burke Collection
Soshoku’s (Ch. Su Shi, 蘇軾) “Ode to His Second Visit to the Red Cliff” (後赤壁賦)
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Artist

Kano Hōgai

(狩野芳崖; 1828–1888)

Catalogue information

Edo period–Meiji era

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

129.2 x 32.2 cm (50 7/8 x 12 5/8 in.)

Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Additional details

Text

by Hōgai

Ode to the Second Visit to the Red Cliff // On the fifteenth of the tenth month of the same year (1082) I set out on foot from Snow Hall, intending to return to Lin’gao. / Two guests accompanied me as we passed Yellow Dirt Hill. / Dew had fallen and the trees had shed all their leaves. / Our shadows lay on the ground, and we gazed up at the bright moon. / Delighted by our surroundings, we sang back and forth to each other as we walked.

Signature

Hōgai

Seals

Shōzan Nōtan; Sōkō; Sa Furetsu in; Shōzan