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Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
50 of the 100 Poets; a six-panel folding screen affixed with 50 sheets
painted in ink and colour on paper mounted on a gold-sprinkled black
paper ground, in silk mounts; unsigned. Overall: 170cm x 370cm
(67in x 145 5/8in); each shikishi approx., 33cm x 24cm (13in x 9 7/16in).
£1,000 - 1,500
JPY150,000 - 230,000
US$1,400 - 2,000
This is the right-hand half of what was formerly a pair of panels affixed stag calls’); Ono no Komachi (ninth, Japan’s best known female poet);
with all hundred poets selected for Hyakunin isshu (100 Poems by 100 Semimaru (tenth, the blind biwa player); Ariwara no Narihira (17th,
Poets), the famous anthology compiled by Fujiwara Teika (1162–1241). autumn leaves on the Tatsuta River); Oshikochi no Mitsune (29th,
While some portraits are generic, many have unambiguous markers white chrysanthemums); Ki no Tomonori (33rd, cherry blossom); Ki no
referring either to themes in the poems or characteristics of the poets, Tsurayuki (35th, plum blossom); Sone no Yoshitada (46th, ‘sailing over
making it possible to establish that the 50 images are arranged in Yura strait’); and Onakatomi no Yoshinobu (49th, ‘like sentry fires at
the order set by Teika, reading from top to bottom and right to left. the imperial gate’). All 100 poems, with readable English translations,
Among the better-known are Kakinimoto no Hitomaru (third, with brush can be conveniently accessed at jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/
in hand and writing box at his side); Yamabe no Akahito (fourth, the hyakua.html.
only poem that mentions Mount Fuji); Sarumaru (sixth, ‘the wandering

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