Quiet Setting of a Mountain Creek, Spring 1940
Fukuda Kodōjinexpand_more
Ink on paperexpand_more
Gift of David Tausig Frank and Kazukuni Sugiyamaexpand_more 2015.111.20
Not on Viewexpand_more
観樹知異心
聴鳥知殊音
日出見山高
月來見水深
風行花自動
天寒魚自沈
靜者無雑念
忘跡理可尋
Contemplating, grasping the mind with thoughts of departure,
Alone I seek to know extraordinary music.
The sun emerges—one sees the height of the mountains;
The moon arrives—one sees the water’s depth.
The wind blows—all the birds in motion;
The sky turns cold—fish naturally submerge.
In serenity, with no wild thoughts,
The forgotten path now can be found again.
Very few paintings and calligraphies by Kodōjon can be firmly dated to the 1940s; it is clear that Kodōjin was no longer as prolific as he once was. Quiet Setting of a Mountain Creek from the spring of 1940 is the last detailed landscape by him.
Details
- Title
- Quiet Setting of a Mountain Creek
- Artist Life
- 1865 - 1944
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.111.20
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Marks 2023, no. 93
- Curator Approved
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