Toi no Tamagawa
From the series "Six Rivers Called Tamagawa"
Serial: P-U 183
Artist name: Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)
Category: Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints
Signature: Utamaro hitsu
Publisher: Matsumura Tatsuemon
Woodblock colour print
Ca. 1798
37 x 34.4 cm
The poem was written by Minamoto no Toshiyuri (Shunrei; 1055?-1129), and is included in the anthology "Senzaishu" (1137-1188).
matsukaze no
oto dani aki wa
sabishiki ni
koromo utsunari
tamagawa no sato
Wind in the pine trees,
the sounds of autumn arouse
feelings of isolation.
In the village on the banks of Tamagawa River
they are beating silken robes.
In the frame at the top right there is a parody of
the classic poem by Shozotei Fumika:
hitohira no
fumi o kamuro no
makikinuta
matsukaze kayou
kami no fujime
The wind
in the pine trees
signs the paper
which the kamuro
is rolling