Solitary Journey of a Recluse, October, 1925
Fukuda Kodōjinexpand_more
Ink on silkexpand_more
Anonymous gift in honor of Gordon Brodfuehrerexpand_more 2017.144.3
Not on Viewexpand_more
遂作山中士
道遙謝世緣
撫松忘夕日
坐石聽清泉
詩妙欲無語
琴音非有絃
翛然得真契
寧必問神仙
And so I have become a mountain-dwelling scholar,
Wandering freely, having renounced worldly karma.
Caressing a pine tree, I forget the westering sun,
Sitting on a rock, listen to the pure stream.
I want my poems so subtle that they lack words,
My lute playing so fine it is as if I used no strings.
Joyfully I have grasped true integration:
What need to query the spirits and immortals'
The vast majority of Kodōjin’s paintings are oriented vertically (i.e., hanging scrolls), but on rare occasions he worked in horizontal formats, including wide compositions that would have been framed. This format was inspired by the horizontal handscroll; Kodōjin mostly employed these for calligraphy works that featured the names of a room or a building and hung over doorways or under eaves. Landscape paintings in this format are unusual, and Solitary Journey of a Recluse is the largest known horizontal landscape painting by Kodōjin.
Details
- Title
- Solitary Journey of a Recluse
- Artist Life
- 1865 - 1944
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2017.144.3
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Marks 2023, no. 36
- Curator Approved
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