Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image

Description

The Hyakunin Isshu, or One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each collection, is a sequence of one hundred Japanese poems in the tanka form, selected by the famous poet and scholar Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) and arranged, in part, to represent the history of Japanese poetry from the seventh century down to Teika's own day. The anthology is, without doubt, the most popular and widely known collection of poetry in Japan - a distinction it has maintained for hundreds of years. In this study, Joshua Mostow challenges the idea of a final or authoritative reading of the Hyakunin Isshu and presents a refreshing, persuasive case for a reception history of this seminal work. In addition to providing a new translation of this classic text and biographical information on each poet, Mostow examines issues relating to text and image that are central to the Japanese arts from the Heian into the early modern period. By using Edo-period woodblock illustrations as pictorializations of the poems - as "pictures of the heart," or meaning, of the poems - text and image are pieced together in a holistic approach that will stand as a model for further research in the interrelationship between Japanese visual and verbal art. Chapter 1 PART ONE: THE HYAKUNIN ISSHU Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 PART TWO: TRANSLATION, COMMENTARY, AND PICTURES POEM 1 POEM 2 POEM 3 POEM 4 POEM 5 POEM 6 POEM 7 POEM 8 POEM 9 POEM 10 POEM 11 POEM 12 POEM 13 POEM 14 POEM 15 POEM 16 POEM 17 POEM 18 POEM 19 POEM 20 POEM 21 POEM 22 POEM 23 POEM 24 POEM 25 POEM 26 POEM 27 POEM 28 POEM 29 POEM 30 POEM 31 POEM 32 POEM 33 POEM 34 POEM 35 POEM 36 POEM 37 POEM 38 POEM 39 POEM 40 POEM 41 POEM 42 POEM 43 POEM 44 POEM 45 POEM 46 POEM 47 POEM 48 POEM 49 POEM 50 POEM 51 POEM 52 POEM 53 POEM 54 POEM 55 POEM 56 POEM 57 POEM 58 POEM 59 POEM 60 POEM 61 POEM 62 POEM 63 POEM 64 POEM 65 POEM 66 POEM 67 POEM 68 POEM 69 POEM 70 POEM 71 POEM 72 POEM 73 POEM 74 POEM 75 POEM 76 POEM 77 POEM 78 POEM 79 POEM 80 POEM 81 POEM 82 POEM 83 POEM 84 POEM 85 POEM 86 POEM 87 POEM 88 POEM 89 POEM 90 POEM 91 POEM 92 POEM 93 POEM 94 POEM 95 POEM 96 POEM 97 POEM 98 POEM 99 POEM 100 APPENDIXES