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Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, from the series Six Poets Viewing Mt. Fuji

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, from the series Six Poets Viewing Mt. Fuji

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Utagawa Toyohiro

Although Kakinomoto no Hitomaro is the most prominent poet included in the celebrated poetry anthology Collection of Ten-thousand Leaves, the poem in this design comes from another source, Collection of Waka Gleanings, complied by Fujiwara no Kinto in the year 1006 at the request of the retired Emperor Kazan. Kakinomoto no Hitomaro is rendered in period costume gazing at Mt. Fuji in the distance. He is accompanied by a young attendant. The poem transcribed on the tanzaku paper translates as follows: Chihayaburu Because the ever-present kami mo omoi no gods, too, emotions areba koso certainly they possess; toshi hete Fuji no Even after the long years have passed, yama mo moyurame Mt. Fuji will still burn.
Artist
Utagawa Toyohiro
(Japanese, 1773 - 1828)
Title
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, from the series Six Poets Viewing Mt. Fuji
Date
ca. 1810-1820
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
228 x 179 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.3136
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

By 1927, purchased from the Walpole Galleries (New York, NY) by Anna Van Vleck; 29 April 1927, gifted by Anna to her brother, Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 87, no. 44

  • Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900 : Chazen Museum of Art, 3/21/2008–6/15/2008
  • Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/3/2007–1/6/2008

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