The Met - Anthology with Vines 1 - 41.5" x 41.5" - Gold

This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. This piece arrives framed and ready to hang. Swaying arrowroot vines (kuzu) in autumnal decline serve as the background for an array of Japanese and Chinese poems inscribed on poem cards (shikishi). The poems share common themes such as the four seasons, bamboo, pines, and clouds. The idiosyncratic style of the calligraphy, with hooks at the ends of strokes and the tall, elongated profile of the characters, is attributable to the nobleman-calligrapher Konoe Nobuhiro. In East Asia, the arts of poetry, calligraphy, and painting are considered the “three perfections,��� and since the 9th century, the Japanese have decorated screens with paintings and poems inscribed in fine calligraphy.