The Poetess Shunzei no Musume, 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 moon by which I once faintly saw you Now comes to rest. In the teardrops on my sleeve For that spring of long ago. (Translation by Andrew J. Pekarik)
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
