Catalog record · 目録番号 29358
Sone no Yoshitada
Catalog note / 解説
This print was conserved with the support of the Robert F. Lange Foundation. Over Yura bar go fishermen in their boats oarless, just drifting with no more sense of direction than have I on my path of love. (translation by Steven D. Carter) Sone no Yoshitada (fl. late 10th century) was a notable Heian period poet whose poems were prominently featured in several imperial anthologies. This poem, which was included in the New Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems (1205), was eventually selected by Teika for inclusion into the One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets collection. In an imaginative re-visioning of this classic poem, Hiroshige depicts the figure lost on the path of love as the lady…
Image record / 画像情報
Honolulu · c. 1847 · honolulu
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