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CALLIGRAPHY BY RYUKO. Manuscript Version of the Travel" Section of the Linked Verse (Renga) Collection "Aged Leaves" (Wakuraba), compiled by Sogi (1421-1502)"

Manuscript Version of the "Travel" Section of the Linked Verse (Renga) Collection "Aged Leaves" (Wakuraba), compiled by Sogi (1421-1502). Artist: Calligraphy by Ryuko (Japanese, active 16th century). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Overall: 9 1/16 in. × 10 ft. 15/16 in. (23 × 307.2 cm). Date: 1533.
This scroll of elegant but forceful calligraphy comprises the "Travel" (Tabi) section of the "Aged Leaves" (Wakuraba) poetry anthology, compiled by the great medieval poetry master Sogi (1421-1502). The type of verse transcribed here is a special kind of linked verse (renga), in which the first three lines of the verse is composed by one poet, and the final two lines by another poet. During an age when printing was still rare, students of poetry had to make their own transcriptions of anthologies for study. Little is known about the calligrapher here, who signed himself Ryuko, except that he was a renga poet of the Warring States period, who was active in Yamashiro in Kyoto and also the Mizokui district of Settsu (Osaka). Ryuko was a pupil of the renga master Shohaku (1443-1527), who had received training from Sogi, so we can retrace the transmission of this manuscript over three generations.

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Author: CALLIGRAPHY BY RYUKO (active 16th century)

Title: Manuscript Version of the Travel" Section of the Linked Verse (Renga) Collection "Aged Leaves" (Wakuraba), compiled by Sogi (1421-1502)"

Caption: Manuscript Version of the "Travel" Section of the Linked Verse (Renga) Collection "Aged Leaves" (Wakuraba), compiled by Sogi (1421-1502). Artist: Calligraphy by Ryuko (Japanese, active 16th century). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Overall: 9 1/16 in. × 10 ft. 15/16 in. (23 × 307.2 cm). Date: 1533. This scroll of elegant but forceful calligraphy comprises the "Travel" (Tabi) section of the "Aged Leaves" (Wakuraba) poetry anthology, compiled by the great medieval poetry master Sogi (1421-1502). The type of verse transcribed here is a special kind of linked verse (renga), in which the first three lines of the verse is composed by one poet, and the final two lines by another poet. During an age when printing was still rare, students of poetry had to make their own transcriptions of anthologies for study. Little is known about the calligrapher here, who signed himself Ryuko, except that he was a renga poet of the Warring States period, who was active in Yamashiro in Kyoto and also the Mizokui district of Settsu (Osaka). Ryuko was a pupil of the renga master Shohaku (1443-1527), who had received training from Sogi, so we can retrace the transmission of this manuscript over three generations.

Technique/material: Book mounted as handscroll; ink on paper

Period: Muromachi period (1392-1573)

Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Credit: Album

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Image size: 4800 × 1567 px | 21.5 MB

Print size: 40.6 × 13.3 cm | 1889.8 × 616.9 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: ASIA • ASIAN ART • BOOK MOUNTED AS HANDSCROLL; INK ON PAPER • BOOKS • CALLIGRAPHY BY RYUKO • CALLIGRAPHY • HANDSCROLLS • INK • JAPAN • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • MUROMACHI PERIOD (1392-1573) • PAINTINGS • PAPER • SCROLL PAINTINGS