Piece from a Kosode with Cherry Blossoms and Poem Slips
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Six poem slips hang from bamboo rods amid branches of a blooming cherry tree. Two of the three poems, which are cited only in part on the fragment, come from the eleventh-century poetry anthology Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing (Wakan rōeishū), and the third is from a twelfth-century collection of Japanese poems, the Anthology of Oral Blooms (Shika wakashū). All of the poems are devoted to springtime topics, with two mentioning cherry blossoms and the other one plum blossoms.
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