Poem by Gon-Chūnagon Sadaie, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Katsushika Hokusai Japanese
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One of Hokusai's most dramatic prints liberates the strong emotion compressed into this single stanza by Gochūnagon Teika (Fujiwara Sadaie, 1162–1241):
Konu hito so
Matsuho no ura no
yuu nagi ni
yaku ya mo shiho no
mi mo kogaretsutsu
Waiting
for one who does not come
my passion burns
as the unceasing fires
beneath the salt-pans around
Matsuho Bay.
Teika, one of Japan's greatest poets and critics compiled the first collection of one hundred poems by one hundred poets.
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