Quatrain on Late Spring
A Song palace seal impressed on the left-hand side of this writing reads: "Treasure of imperial writing."
In his poem, the emperor laments the coming of old age:
How spring makes me sad!
Timidly I bear the passing of spring.
The young lady has no feeling for me,
She treats my love merely as that of a waning spring.
(Wen C. Fong, trans., in Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th-14th Century [New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992], p. 242.)
In his poem, the emperor laments the coming of old age:
How spring makes me sad!
Timidly I bear the passing of spring.
The young lady has no feeling for me,
She treats my love merely as that of a waning spring.
(Wen C. Fong, trans., in Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th-14th Century [New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992], p. 242.)
Artwork Details
- 南宋 理宗 趙昀 行書 《長苦春來》 七絕詩 團扇
- Title: Quatrain on Late Spring
- Artist: Emperor Lizong (Chinese, 1205–64, r. 1224–64)
- Period: Song dynasty (960–1279)
- Culture: China
- Medium: Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk
- Dimensions: Image: 9 5/8 × 9 1/4 in. (24.4 × 23.5 cm)
- Classification: Calligraphy
- Credit Line: Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
- Object Number: 1989.363.22
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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