From the poem li sao "encountering sorrow" by qu yuan. Some consensus the man depicted is poet qu yuan. Hosono surmised it to be scene where qu yuan "beckon[s] the water-dragons (jiaolong 蛟龍) to make a bridge" (hawkes tr. ) from a line in the poem named in the artwork title. But other hypothesize the imagery come from e. G. "the lady of the xiang" section of a different poem, jiu ge "nine songs". [1] in "the lady of the xiang" occurs the phrase "[why] the water-dragons (jiao 蛟) outside the waters?" (hawkes tr. ). Date: 1926. Dimensions: height: 93.6 cm (36.8 in); width: 136.4 cm (53.7 in). Medium: ink and color on paper. Collection: Private collection. Kikkawa, Reika - Risō (Profound Grief) - left
