Sunset over Autumn Mountains

From the museum

Hoashi Kyōu was the fourth son of a village headman in Oita in southern Japan. He moved to Kyoto, where he studied painting and Chinese literature. His long Chinese-style poem added to the top of this work contains imagery mirrored in his composition: The way was forgotten while enjoying the conversation and colors of autumn,The road entered among the red trees and the white clouds,The trace of a path led to the lonely temple where the monks received enlightenment,The sound of chimes echoes remotely in the mountains where the sunset falls. [JK1]Peter or Mary (not sure who the designer is yet), this is a four-line poem (with the four lines each beginning with the capitalized “The”). The entire poem will be indented (as I’ve done here), but if/when text from any of the four lines spills over, please just indent the new line a little farther (to help indicate that the line breaks aren’t original to the poem itself). So it might look something like this: The way was...the conversation and colors of autumn,

The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC0