Catalog record · 目録番号 46494
Öe no Chisato
Catalog note / 解説
This print was conserved with the support of the Robert F. Lange Foundation. Autumn does not come for me alone among men yet I am burdened with a thousand vague sorrows when I gaze upon the moon. (translation by Helen McCullough) Öe no Chisato (late 9th-early 10th century) was a nephew of Ariwara no Narihira (also featured in this exhibition), and a renowned Heian court poet and scholar of Chinese poetry. His expertise in the Chinese language enabled him to actively translate Chinese poems into waka compositions, many of which were collected in his personal anthology Kudai Waka (Japanese Poems Based on Lines from Chinese Verse, 894). This poem, which was included in the Collection of Poems…
Image record / 画像情報
Honolulu · c. 1840 · honolulu
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