Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 79268
Taira no Tadanori
- Artist / 作者
- Kobayashi Kiyochika小林清親
- Date / 年代
- 2010
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Heisei / jaodb
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 1200 × 612 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Japanese Art Open Database
- Published by / 公開者
- 白石カナ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Japanese Art Open Database
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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