Lot Essay
The poet who composed the verse in the cloud reserve above the scene is given incorrectly as the eleventh-century poet Lady Sagami, for the poem is by Minamoto no Toshiyori (ca. 1055-1129). In its online entry for a related print by Harunobu using the same poem and poet-attribution, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (MMA acc. no. JP 3021) clarifies that the poem is by Toshiyori and provides this translation by Miyeko Murase:
Matsukaze no The autumn wind
oto dani aki wa over the pines sounds forlorn
sabishiki ni In the loneliness,
koromo utsu nari the sound of fulling cloth at Tamagawa.
Matsukaze no The autumn wind
oto dani aki wa over the pines sounds forlorn
sabishiki ni In the loneliness,
koromo utsu nari the sound of fulling cloth at Tamagawa.