Chinese poem by Hanshan, “My heart is like the autumn moon,” 1760
Baisaō 売茶翁 (1675-1763)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
28.5 x 50 cm; 114.5 x 64 cm (mounted)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2018, 2018.853.24
“my mind is like the autumn moon
in a jade pool clear and bright
nothing can compare
tell me what to say”
—trans. Red Pine, The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, no. 5
吾心似秋月
碧潭清皎潔
無物堪比倫
教我如何説
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