Kyōka hachi taika sono ni
Kyoka Hachi Taika Sono Ni (Eight Great Kyoka Poets, No. 2)
Four poets sit around a low desk with an open book on it. One rests his chin on his folded hands, another spreads a red fan, and each strikes a pose of his own.
About this print
A bundle of written pages lies open on a low desk, with four men gathered around it. At the front left, a man with a shaved head rests his chin on his clasped hands and peers at the pages, while at the front right, a man with his back to us spreads a fan with red ribs and stretches one hand out to the right.
Its English title is "Eight great Kyōka poets 2.", meaning "part two" of the eight great masters of kyoka. It is a color woodblock print that was once part of an illustrated kyoka book, and the thin break running down the middle of the picture is a trace of its days as a book. The library that holds it notes, with a question mark, that it may have been a frontispiece.
At the far left is a folding screen with a red border. On it, a large tree spreads its branches against bluish mountains, with house roofs clustered at its foot. While every figure's kimono is filled with large patterns, the screen alone opens onto a landscape in soft colors.
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- Source title
- 『Kyōka hachi taika sono ni（Yajima, Gogaku, active 19th century）』（1818〜1824年ごろ）
- Held by
- Library of Congress
- 複製番号
- LC-DIG-jpd-00103
- Why it's free to use
- The library lists it as "No known restrictions on publication." Its copyright has also expired under Japanese law.
- クレジット
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-jpd-00103
- Original item
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View in the NDL online exhibition "Exploring Japanese Landmarks in Nishiki-e and Photographs" - Made
- 208+ years ago
- Added to site
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