The Poetess Michitsuna no Haha, from the series "The Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets (Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen)"
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756-1829)
Edo period (1615–1868), 1801
- Medium
- Pages 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 is in the calligraphy of Toyota Ito, age 10, the elder sister of Toyota Mine, who recorded the previous poem.
Have we come to the end? If you appeared, even in reflection, That is what I would ask. But on the pool of remembrance How the water-weed has grown!
(Translation by Andrew J. Pekarik)
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
