Writing Box with Portrait of Fujiwara no Ietaka and His Poem about the Tatsuta River
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The poem on the outside of the lid is rendered in fine hiramaki-e, imitating calligraphy in ink. The inside of the box is embellished with colorful maple leaves in a river on nashiji ground. The poem, by Fujiwara no Ietaka (1158\u20131237), is about the Tatsuta River in Nara Prefecture:Tatsuta gawa momiji o tozuru usug\u014d ri wataraba kore mo naka ya taenan On Tatsuta Rivera layer of red maple leavesis trapped within thin ice,and if we were to go acrossthe brocade would be torn.\u2014Trans. John T. CarpenterFree picture Writing Box with Portrait of Fujiwara no Ietaka and His Poem about the Tatsuta River integrated with the OffiDocs web apps
