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Creator.Role: calligrapher
Title: [Poem from the Heike monogatari 平家物語, Chapter 5.2]
Description: hanging scroll; ink on decorated paper (multi-colored paper with gold powder); chiefly hiragana script with some kanji; signed by the artist; no artist's seal.
Type: Calligraphy—Japanese.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)—Japanese.
Culture: Japanese.
Style.Period: Modern.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 20 x 49 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
When I came once more to the former capital
I could find only a desolate rush-wild plain
The light of the moon fills all of heaven and earth
The bitter winds of autumn pierce me to the bone.
(McCullough's translation)
古き都に来て見れば
浅茅が原とぞ なりにける
月の光はくまなくて
秋風のみぞ 身にはしむ