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Poem 14: The minister of the left
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Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshiga I様様様 Common series of Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige and Kunisada about the famous collection of poems “Hyakunin isshu IIII” (hundred poets with a hundred poems). In the yellow striped field above, the 14th poem of the collection, written by Minamoto no Tōru Im (822-895), bearing the official title “Minister of the Left District” (= Kawara no Sadaijin; Kawara is the name of the borough), and was thus one of the three most important state councilors at the Imperial Court. The picture shows Chiyo, the madman of Fumi-hiroge (Fumi-hiroge no kyōjo) with a letter in his hand. She was a literarily interested woman who, after her husband’s death, always carried a letter in a casket. On a full moon she is said to have read out it with a loud voice near the Gojō Bridge.
Title: Poem 14: The minister of the left
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Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshiga I様様様 Common series of Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige and Kunisada about the famous collection of poems “Hyakunin isshu IIII” (hundred poets with a hundred poems).
In the yellow striped field above, the 14th poem of the collection, written by Minamoto no Tōru Im (822-895), bearing the official title “Minister of the Left District” (= Kawara no Sadaijin; Kawara is the name of the borough), and was thus one of the three most important state councilors at the Imperial Court.
The picture shows Chiyo, the madman of Fumi-hiroge (Fumi-hiroge no kyōjo) with a letter in his hand.
She was a literarily interested woman who, after her husband’s death, always carried a letter in a casket.
On a full moon she is said to have read out it with a loud voice near the Gojō Bridge.
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