Catalog record · 目録番号 79268
Taira no Tadanori
Catalog note / 解説
Tuesday, 27 July 2010 Original Kiyochika (1847 - 1915) Japanese Woodblock Print Inn-Flowers (Taira no Tadanori) Comments - An elegant and triptych by Kiyochika depicting the warrior Taira no Tadanori seated beneath a cherry tree. Brother to the head of the Taira clan, Tadanori was a general in the Genpei War fought against the Minamoto. He was killed in the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani. Upon his death, a poem was discovered in his quiver. It read: Were I, still traveling as night falls, to make a sheltering tree my inn, then would my host tonight be the blossoms themselves? A beautiful work by Kiyochika, imagining Tadanori at the moment of his composing this poem that would be his death poem, the…
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