# The Poetess Gishumon-in no Tango, from the series The Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets (Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen)

- By: Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756-1829)
- Date: Edo period (1615–1868), 1801
- Medium: Color woodblock print
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: 24.8 × 37.5 cm (9 3/4 × 14 3/4 in.)
- Culture: Japan
- Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/24161)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/97d8a579-3fa1-8d73-ff6e-131b7ebcd79a/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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