Artworks

Page from the Ise shū (Sanjūrokunin kashū)

Artwork · Anonymous · c. 1112 · kakemono · Museum Yamato Bunkakan

A page from the Ise shū, the poems of the earliest woman master Ise (c. 877–c. 940), in the anthology of the thirty-six immortal poets compiled around 1112, now mounted as a hanging scroll. The paper is a collage of coloured papers suggesting a hilly landscape, with clouds, birds, trees and fences added in gold and silver; over it runs the poem in an elegant running-grass script — kana and hiragana blurred together. 1 Mason 2005, p. 110, fig. 136. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.