Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art
The River Ide-Tamagawa
From the series "Six Tamagawa Rivers"
Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770)
Chuban, woodblock colour print
Ca. 1768
28 x 19.5 cm
Serial: P-U 36
Artist name: Suzuki Harunobu
Category: Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints
One print from the series "The Six Tamagawa Rivers" (Jewel Rivers). The beauties in the prints are compared with each of the rivers. In the square frame, upper right corner, a poem composed by Fujiwara no Shunzei (Toshinari; 1114-1204) about the beauty of the river Tamagawa in Ide, where Japanese globeflowers (yamabuki) bloom. The poem is included in the anthology "Shin-Kokinshu II", no. 159.
koma tomete
nao mizu kawan
yamabuki no
hana no tsuyu so
Ide no Tamagawa
I stop my pony
to water him;
dew drops from
the petals of the mountain rose
to the Tamagawa River in Id