id: 169292 accession number: 2011.17 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.17 updated: 2023-03-23 11:10:06.151000 Du Fu's Poem (pair of scrolls), 1983. Aoyama Sanu (Japanese, 1912–1993). Ink on paper; image: 161 x 38.5 cm (63 3/8 x 15 3/16 in.); overall: 220 x 52 cm (86 5/8 x 20 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Aoyama Keiji 2011.17 title: Du Fu's Poem (pair of scrolls) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1983 creation date earliest: 1983 creation date latest: 1983 current location: creditline: Gift of Aoyama Keiji copyright: --- culture: Japan, Shōwa period (1926-89) technique: ink on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Calligraphy find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Aoyama Sanu (Japanese, 1912–1993) - artist --- measurements: Image: 161 x 38.5 cm (63 3/8 x 15 3/16 in.); Overall: 220 x 52 cm (86 5/8 x 20 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: The hanging scroll on the right reads, "Inscription on the wall of monk Xuan Wu’s studio"; the hanging scroll on the left, "Staying at boat in Kui Zhou and not getting on the land because of the heavy rain." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art opening date: 2011-03-27T00:00:00 The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Aoyama family collection, Tokyo, Japan, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1983–2011 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2011– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Aoyama Sanu was a calligrapher and a professor at Daito Bunka University who transformed the literati calligraphy of the Chinese Qing period. He expressed his admiration for the faithful spirit by transcribing in a running script the 6th-century poems of the Tang poet Du Fu. The hanging scroll on the right reads, "Inscription on the wall of monk Xuan Wu’s studio"; the hanging scroll on the left, "Staying at boat in Kui Zhou and not getting on the land because of the heavy rain." --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Mentioned: p. 97; Reproduced: p. 94, no. 95 url: --- IMAGES