Left, a man (the poet Gonchūnagon Atsutada?) is seated on a verandah; centre, a willow tree; right, a mad woman with unbound hair and disevelled dress is dancing, mocked by three children. Woodcut by Keigi, 1822.

  • Tayama, Keigi.
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[1822]
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565558i
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[Edo [Tokyo] (?) : [publisher not identified], [1822]

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1 print : woodcut ; 20.6 x 29.7 cm

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Lettering Japanese includes a poem by Gonchnāgon Atsudada from the anthology of court poetry, Ogura hyakunin isshu (A hundred poems from a hundred poets), said to have been compiled by the thirteenth-century critic and poet Fujiwara no Sadaie (also known as Teiko)

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Wellcome Collection 565558i

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