Fishing Alone in a Pure Creek, Spring 1924
Fukuda Kodōjinexpand_more
Ink on silkexpand_more
Gift of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Cultureexpand_more 2013.29.840
Not on Viewexpand_more
人皆曰吾老
我豈徒守愚
讀書不甚解
求道與誰倶
自古天下士
却作布衣徒
悠然獨養志
寄跡泉石區
People all say I must be getting old,
But maybe I have been cultivating this stupidity!
I read books, but do not know how to interpret them;
I seek the Way, but have one to share with.
From ancient times, truly world-class scholars
Have been followers of the Way of Simple Clothes.
Trancelike, alone I nurture my intentions;
Visitors, please note this “region of streams and rocks.”
Kodōjin also inscribed this prose:
此幅固非應需而既作也。自画自娯，聯以達真耳。不問巧拙不論家派，著吾家法直興化合矣。豈復他有哉々々
This work was certainly not done under any compulsion. I paint myself for my own pleasure, simply to achieve Truth. For me there’s no question of skill or clumsiness, no concern about Schools of Painting: I implement my own style under direct inspiration of harmonious transformation. How could there be anything more to it than that'
Details
- Title
- Fishing Alone in a Pure Creek
- Artist Life
- 1865 - 1944
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2013.29.840
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Marks 2023, no. 33
- Curator Approved
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