Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 29359

Ki no Tomonori

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
313 × 450 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Honolulu Museum of Art
Published by / 公開者
朝倉レン
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. On a peaceful day so warm in the tranquil light of the springtime sun how is it that the blossoms fall with so little sense of calm? (translation by Steven D. Carter) Ki no Tomonori (d. 905) was a prominent court poet, and one of the four compilers of the Kokin Wakashü (Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern, 905), the first of eight imperially commissioned poetry anthologies compiled during the Heian period (794-1185). Though he passed away shortly before the anthology was completed, Tomonori contributed a traditional Chinese preface and a large number of notable poems to this collection, one of which was eventual…

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