The Poetess Ukon, from the series The Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets (Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen)
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756-1829)
Edo period (1615–1868), 1801
- Medium
- Page from a color woodblock-printed volume
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 24.7 × 18.5 cm (9 3/4 × 7 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Frederick W. Gookin 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
This poem was copied by Toyota Mine, age six:
Waiting for you to Come to me, how the months have Past—rock shore—If I Went out there now, would the name Itself provoke resentment?
(Translation by Andrew J. Pekarik)
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
