The Poetess Michitsuna no Haha, from the series "The Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets (Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen)"

Edo period (1615–1868), 1801

Chobunsai Eishi
Japanese, 1756-1829

This poem is in the calligraphy of Toyota Ito, age 10, the elder sister of Toyota Mine, who recorded the previous poem.

Have we come to the end?
If you appeared, even in reflection,
That is what I would ask.
But on the pool of remembrance
How the water-weed has grown!

(Translation by Andrew J. Pekarik)

Status: On View, Gallery 107
Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Chôbunsai Eishi
Title: The Poetess Michitsuna no Haha, from the series "The Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets (Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen)"
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1795–1805
Medium: Pages from a color woodblock-printed volume
Dimensions: 24.7 × 18.5 cm (9 3/4 × 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Frederick W. Gookin Collection
Reference Number: 1939.1708
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