Beschreibung:

20,5 : 18,5 cm. Six water colours painted on silk under a golden passepartout in form of leporello, edges gilt Ornamental coloured silk binding in Japanese style.

Bemerkung:

Very rare album showing six of the most famous Waka-poets. Carefully paintid on silk and under golden framed passepartout. - Waka (Japanese poem) is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. It has a long history, first recorded in the early 8th century, until modern times. Unidentified artists. - The Kokin Wakashu is an early (c. 900) anthology of waka poetry which fixed the form of Japanese poetry. Waka ("Japanese poem") is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. - The word waka has two different but related meanings: the original meaning was "poetry in Japanese" and encompassed several genres such as choka and sedoka (discussed below); the later, more common definition refers to poetry in a 5-7-5-7-7 metre. Up to and during the compilation of the Man'yoshu in the eighth century, the word waka was a general term for poetry composed in Japanese, and included several genres such as tanka ( "short poem"), choka ( "long poem"), bussokusekika ( "Buddha footprint poem") and sedoka ( "repeating-the-first-part poem"). However, by the time of the Kokinshu's compilation at the beginning of the tenth century, all of these forms except for the tanka and choka had effectively gone extinct, and choka had significantly diminished in prominence. As a result, the word waka became effectively synonymous with tanka, and the word tanka fell out of use until it was revived at the end of the nineteenth century.