About ‘Poem-card from the Shinkokin wakashu, Tawaraya Sôtatsu, Honami Kōetsu’
Poem-card from the Shinkokin wakashu (New Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times) with Design of Pine on a Beach, Tawaraya Sôtatsu, Honami Kōetsu (1606)
Tawaraya Sotatsu and Hon’ami Koetsu are both associated with the founding of the Rimpa school of Japanese painting. In this poem-card Tawaraya painted the gold and silver design, over which Hon’ami recorded poems from Shinkokin wakashu.
The verses read from top to bottom and from right to left: "Even as I gaze, the thought of it is lonely. High in the heavens the moon-capital lies still in the sky of its dawning."
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