Reading a Sutra by Moonlight 玉谿思珉題贊對月圖
Item
Title
Reading a Sutra by Moonlight
玉谿思珉題贊對月圖
玉谿思珉題贊對月圖
Description
Artist's seal (spurious)
Muxi 牧谿
Inscription
Yuxi Simin 玉谿思珉 (d. 1337), 5 columns in semi-cursive script, undated; 1 seal:
In this one volume of sutra,
The words have no clear meaning.
The sun rises, the moon sets,
When will I finish reading it? [1]
Inscribed by Simin of the Baofu [Temple]. [Seal]: Yuxi
只這一卷經，字字無分曉。
日出月又落，幾時看得了。
保福思珉讚。 [印]：玉谿
[1] Trans. from Wen C. Fong, Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p. 361.
Muxi 牧谿
Inscription
Yuxi Simin 玉谿思珉 (d. 1337), 5 columns in semi-cursive script, undated; 1 seal:
In this one volume of sutra,
The words have no clear meaning.
The sun rises, the moon sets,
When will I finish reading it? [1]
Inscribed by Simin of the Baofu [Temple]. [Seal]: Yuxi
只這一卷經，字字無分曉。
日出月又落，幾時看得了。
保福思珉讚。 [印]：玉谿
[1] Trans. from Wen C. Fong, Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p. 361.
identifier
40516
Source
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40516
Creator
Unidentified artist
annotates
(none)
Abstract
(none)
Rights Holder
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
1982.3.2
References
Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬, ed. Chûgoku kaiga sogo zuroku: Daiikan, Amerika-Kanada Hen 中國繪畫總合圖錄: 第一卷 アメリカ - カナダ 編 (Comprehensive illustrated catalog of Chinese paintings: vol. 1 American and Canadian collections) Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982, p. 126, cat. no. A17-004.
Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 356–59, pls. 79, 79a.
Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 356–59, pls. 79, 79a.