Attributed to Hon’ami Koetsu (1558–1637) (calligraphy) and Tawaraya Sotatsu (1570–1643) (underpaintings), Willow and waves, Momoyama – Edo period, early 17th century | 本阿弥光悦書・俵屋宗達下絵 萩下絵和歌色紙　ほととぎす　桃山時代末期～江戸時代初期　17世紀初頭

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poem card (shikishi): ink, colour and gold on paper, inscribed with the Hotogisu [cuckoo] poem from the poem anthology New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (Shin kokin wakashu), silk brocade border, accompanied with a fitted wood storage box with inscription by Nakamura Tanio 18.3 x 16 cm. 木盒書中村渓男（1921–2001年）題識 Trailing fronds of willow overhang waves rendered in gold pigment on a blue ground. Sotatsu’s underpainting is embellished with a waka poem by Koetsu’s elegant hand. The poem is by the Retired Emperor Shirakawa (1053-1129), included in the Shin kokin wakashu [New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern], Book Three, Summer Section. The poem has been translated by Laurel Rasplica Rodd in Shinkokinshu: New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (Leiden, 2015), p. 89, no. 198: lonely nightingale still yearning still tentative your muted cries heard by no one but I who wait for someone who does not come hototogisu mada uchitokenu shinobine ha kono hito wo matsu ware nomi zo kiku 展覽 《琳派 版と型の展開》，町田市立国際版画美術館，東京，1992年，編號21 《琳派名品展》，三越（日本橋），東京，2015年，編號6 《琳派の精華》，岡田美術館，箱根，2015年，編號4 木盒書中村溪男（1921–2001年）題識 藍底之上以金泥繪就波浪，垂柳枝蔓輕拂水面。宗達所作之底畫，配以光悅清雅流麗之筆跡揮毫和歌，相得益彰。此和歌乃白河院（1053–1129年）所作，收錄於《新古今和歌集》卷三「夏歌」。其英譯本見於 Laurel Rasplica Rodd 著，《Shinkokinshu: New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern》（萊頓，2015年），頁89，編號198： 漢譯： 杜鵑啼聲猶未放， 幽咽低吟暗自傷。 苦候不至人未還， 唯我獨聞此悲音。

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