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The Poetess Gishumon-in no Tango, from the series The Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets (Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen)

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Date: Edo period (1615–1868), 1801
Medium: Page from a color woodblock-printed volume
Culture: Japan
Department: Arts of Asia
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 24161

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Somehow or other When I hear it, oh, the tears How they pour out! Back and forth over sleeves of moss The sweeping wind through the pines. (Translation by Andrew J. Pekarik)

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Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Provenance: Francis Augustus Lathrop (1849–1909), New York; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Mar. 1911; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.

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Object type: AAT300041273

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