Edo Period Art. |
Blossoms on the pear; Nashi no hana
and a woman in the moonlight tsuki ni fumi yomu
reads a letter there... onna ari...
–Yosa Buson (1716-1784)
A one-foot waterfall Isshaku no
it too makes noises, and at night taki mo oto shite
the coolness of it all! yusuzumi.
*From the Anthology of Japanese Literature compiled and edited by Donald Keene.
Edo kinko hakkei. Tamagawa shugetsu. By Utagawa Hiroshige. Edo: Sanoya Kihei, c.1833. 1 print: woodcut, col. Source: http://www.ndl.go.jp/nichiran/e/data/L/K/K34-001l.html |
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