“One Hundred Poets Explained by the Wet Nurse”: Bonus week, Thursday W53Y5
Crazy title, no? There's an interesting little origin story here. In late 12th century Japan, someone (name lost in the mists of antiquity) came up with the idea of an anthology of 100 classic poems (waka), each by a different poet (Hyakunin isshu, "one hundred people, one poem each". There were a number of versions created, but the best known and perhaps the standard edition was compiled by Fujiwara no Teika, c1200 CE. Several centuries later, an artist named HISHIKAWA Moronobu created […]#woodcut — Public Fediverse posts
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Illustration by Georg Bartisch, from Ophthalmodouleia: Das ist, Augendienst (1583).
Source: Wellcome Collection
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