The Poetess Gishumon-in no Tango, from the series The Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets (Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen)
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756-1829)
Edo period (1615–1868), 1801
- Medium
- Color woodblock print
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 24.8 × 37.5 cm (9 3/4 × 14 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Somehow or other When I hear it, oh, the tears How they pour out! Back and forth over sleeves of moss The sweeping wind through the pines. (Translation by Andrew J. Pekarik)
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
