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Three Waka Poems
Jōben
early 14th century
Japanese and Chinese Poems of the Four Seasons
Konoe Sakihisa
late 16th–early 17th century
Two Waka Poems Composed at Zenrinji Temple
Ueda Akinari 上田秋成
ca. 1803–04 (Kyōwa 3–Bunka 1)
Hokku poem “On a withered branch”
Matsuo Bashō 松尾芭蕉
probably 1680s
White Clouds
Teshigahara Sōfū 勅使河原蒼風
1960s–1970s
Waka Poem on Chrysanthemums
Shōren’in Sonchō Hosshinnō 青蓮院尊朝法親王
late 16th century
Three Waka Poems
Tonna (Ton’a)
ca. 1368–69
Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji
Tosa School
early 17th century
Koto (箏)
Japanese
20th century
Picture Book of Japanese Poetry
Unidentified artist
1764
“Kanzan” (Hanshan)
Inoue Yūichi
1966
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir
1878
The Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals
Studio of Kano Takanobu
early 17th century
Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants
ca. 1575–90
Portraits of Three Famous Poets: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Lady Ise, and Ono no Komachi
Tosa Mitsuoki
1691
Hanshan and Shide
Yosa Buson
early 1770s
Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener
1781
Three Poems from Poetry in the Three Styles (Santai shi)
Okamoto Hansuke (Mumei)
1640
Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “Dream in Naniwa” Design
Japan
18th century
Album of Twelve Waka from Poetry Competition of Poets of Different Eras
Emperor Go-Yōzei
early 17th century
Herb Gatherer in the Mountains
Go Shun (Matsumura Gekkei)
ca. after 1780
Three Poems from the Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (Kokin wakashū), one of the Araki Fragments (Araki-gire)
Fujiwara no Yukinari (Kōzei)
11th century
Densho
Japanese
19th century
”Abiding nowhere, the awakened mind arises”
Musō Soseki
early to mid-14th century
Portrait of Kiyohara no Motosuke, from the “Tameshige Version of Poetry Competition of Poets of Different Eras” (Tameshige-bon Jidai fudō uta-awase)
Unidentified artist
15th century
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna
shortly after 1450
Chinese Poem about a Bamboo Grove
Ryōkan Taigu
early 19th century
Lions at the Stone Bridge of Mount Tiantai
Soga Shōhaku
1779
Sencha Tea Cup
Japan
early 18th century
Sencha Tea Cup
Japan
18th century
Sencha Tea Cup
Japan
18th century
Sencha Tea Cup
Japan
early 18th century
Sencha Tea Cup
Japan
early 18th century
Three Poems from the Later Collection of Japanese Poems (Gosen wakashū)
Monk Saigyō
late 12th century
Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi
dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE
Cherry Blossom Viewing at Itsukushima and Yoshino
Japan
first half 17th century
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David
1787
The Bodhisattva Jizō
Intan
1291
Flying Apsaras (Hiten)
Japan
late 11th to early 12th century
Two Kyōka (Playful Thirty-One- Syllable Verse)
Shokusanjin (Ōta Nanpo)
1819