Three poems from the Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (Kokin wakashū)

Traditionally attributed to Fujiwara no Tameyori Japanese

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Connoisseurs in the past attributed this work to the hand of courtier-poet Fujiwara no Tameyori. In doing so, they seem to have made a speculative connection between the content of the calligraphic fragment, in this case poems from Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (ca. 905), imaging that it was from an early transcription of this literary classic. This style of court calligraphy did not appear until two hundred years later. Each of the three anonymously composed poems is rendered in two columns.



On view from December 18, 2021–April 24, 2022

Three poems from the Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (Kokin wakashū), Traditionally attributed to Fujiwara no Tameyori (Japanese, 939?–998), Page from a booklet mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper, Japan

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Three poems from the Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (Kokin wakashū), Traditionally attributed to Fujiwara no Tameyori (Japanese, 939?–998), Page from a booklet mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper, Japan
Three poems from the Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (Kokin wakashū), Traditionally attributed to Fujiwara no Tameyori (Japanese, 939?–998), Page from a booklet mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper, Japan

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