Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 29358

Sone no Yoshitada

Artist / 作者
Utagawa Hiroshige歌川広重
Date / 年代
1842-1852
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / honolulu
Digital record / 画像記録
308 × 450 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Honolulu Museum of Art
Published by / 公開者
紫藤メイ
Rights / 権利
No reusable image license documented
Attribution / 表記
Honolulu Museum of Art

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…

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