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Maker(s):Otagaki Rengetsu
Culture:Japanese (1791-1875)
Title:Insects Chirping in the Moonlight
Date Made:19th century (Edo period)
Type:Painting; Scroll
Materials:Hanging scroll; Ink on paper, mounted on beige raw silk and dark green brocade with branches of fall leaves
Place Made:Asia; Japan
Measurements:Overall: 53 1/4 in x 12 1/4 in; 135.255 cm x 31.115 cm; Mount: 53 1/4 in x 10 1/4 in; 135.255 cm x 26.035 cm; Image: 27 1/16 in x 9 1/2 in; 68.73875 cm x 24.13 cm
Accession Number:  MH 1990.3.2
Credit Line:Purchase with the John Martyn Warbeke Fund
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Vertical cursive calligraphy on gold flecked paper mounted as hanging scroll with rice paper, blue embroidered kimono silk and brown silk. Knob made of wood.

Label Text:
The calligraphy reads as follows:

Insects chirping in the moonlight
From a crack in the wall
Of my mountain hut:
Katydids----
through the same hole
moonlight too pour in.

Rengetsu

2012

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