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Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣

1695, fourth month · Woodblock printed book; ink on paper · Asian Art

Moronobu's version of the selected poems by one hundred famous poets, a collection first compiled in the early Kamakura period (1185–1333), pairs contemporary scenes with small background insets that evoke the poem as if it came from memory or from a view in the distance. Here the book is open to the pages showing the blind musician Semimaru's poem on meeting and parting at the barrier gate at Osaka and the ninth-century courtier Sangi no Takamura's poem calling to the fisherwomen's boats to carry his message of love back to the capital.

Artist

Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣

Date

1695, fourth month

Medium

Woodblock printed book; ink on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1918