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Poem Scroll with Selections from the Anthology of Chinese and Japanese
Poems for Recitation (Wakan Roei Shu)
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Calligraphy
by Hon'ami Koetsu (1558-1637)
Painting by a follower of Tawaraya Sotatsu
Japan
Edo period, dated to 1626
Handscroll; ink and gold on silk
12 5/8 x 206 1/2 in. (32.1 x 524.5 cm); 1979.214
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Artist Comments
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Ping Chong
Viewing this scroll,
I am denied the music of the Chinese and Japanese language configured as
poetry since I cannot read either language. I can also only imagine the
original context in which this scroll was meant to be viewed, intimately,
in the seventeenth century, aristocratic world of Japan. All that said,
one can still take ample if not complete pleasure in the loveliness of this
work, in the complex interplay of light and space, form and structure. It
is an elegant, visual dance between calligraphic gesture and bamboo shimmering
with gold seen through an elongated window, slowly unfolding.
Ken Chu
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1639
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Japanese enforces policy of isolation from all Europeans, except a token Dutch trading post
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1920s
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Fortune cookies invented in the U.S.
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1953
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Dale Joe (1924-2001), San Bernadino-born Chinese-American abstract expressionist artist receives a John Hay Whitney Fellowship, and in 1956, a Fulbright Fellowship. In 1960, he is included in Young America at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Dale is survived by his partner of 50 years, Jack Champlin. Colleagues and associates include:
| Miné Okubo |
Robinson Jeffers |
| Allan Kaprow |
Jack Tworkov |
| Wolf Kahn |
Brice and Helen Marden |
| Robert DeNiro, Sr. |
Andy Warhol |
| Leon Golub |
Bernice Bing |
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1969
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Asian American Study is inaugurated at San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley
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1982
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Maya Lin (1959- ), Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Jenni Holzer (1950- ), Truism displays on the Spectacolor Board in Times Square
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1989-91
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Brice Marden (1938- ), Cold Mountain Painting
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