Catalog record · 目録番号 54801
Gonchünagon Fujiwara no Sadaie
Catalog note / 解説
The scene depicts the process of making salt by burning seaweed to extract it. At the right is the earthen kiln where the kelp is burned, producing a huge volume of smoke. At the left is a stack of fried and bundled kelp. The man below is about to fling a bundle to the man above. Two women carry off buckets of ashes from the kiln. The ashes will be mixed with a little water to make saturated salt water, which then is boiled off until the salt crystals form. Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241), one of the greatest poets and an anthologist, compiled the collection of One Hundred Poets. He also compiled the imperial anthology, Shin Kokinshu (1206). Teika's poem reads: Konu hito wo Like the salt seaw…
Image record / 画像情報
Honolulu · c. 1835 - 1836 · honolulu
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