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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