Originally, this was a long scroll of nearly 20 meters featuring 28 verses selected from the autumn poems in Book 4 of the Shin Kokinshū and brushed in the scattered writing calligraphy style, but after World War Ⅱ the scroll was cut into sections and passed into the possession of several families. The passing of time, from early morning to dusk on one day in autumn, is lyrically expressed by the application of gold and silver paint to the ground and mist. This work, which corresponds to the first half of the scroll, depicts the deer bedded down in a row that runs from top right to bottom left. Kōetsu has fluidly penned the poems around the deer to harmonize with the space.
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