A Poem of Spring from Manyoshu

late 1900s Sheet: 36 x 50 cm (14 3/16 x 19 11/16 in.); Image: 13.5 x 15.5 cm (5 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.); Framed: 54 x 41 cm (21 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.)
https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.21

Here, the calligrapher Takaki Seikaku copied poem number 4,514 from one of the oldest existing collections of Japanese poetry, Manyoshu (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves). From top to bottom and from right to left, the poem about spring reads, "After the New Year, the spring...

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