Moral Teaching for Young Girls Mirrored in the Thirty-six Poets

(Sanjûrokkasen dôjo kyôkun kagami, 三十六歌仙童女教訓鏡)

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Yoichi

c. 1843

The “Thirty-Six Immortal Poets” is a collection of 36 waka (31-syllable) poems written from the 7th to the 11th centuries. This series of prints likens beautiful women to these famous poems. This series is listed as number 98 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. I am grateful to Ward Pieters for assisting with this series.

	Poet: Chûnagon Yakamochi Description: Beauty with a fan and a peacock in the background
	Another state of the above print
	Poet: Gon Chunason Atsutada Description: Beauty gathering sea-shells
	Another state of the above print
	Poet: Sarumaru Daiyu Description: Beauty in the wind
	Poet: Yoriyasu Ason Description: Beauty mending a paper sliding door
	Poet: Soseo Hôshi Description: Enjoying the moon (Sosei hôshi)
	Poet: Fujiwara no Takamitsu Description:
	Poet: Kinchu no Ason Description:
	Poet: Description: Beauty weaving at a loom
	Poet: Saigû no Nyôgô Description: Beauty with a koto
	Poet: Ki no Tomonori Description:
	Poet: Chunagon Kaheura Description: Young woman carrying a basket full of flowers on her back
	Poet: Kakinomoto Hitomaru Description: A young girl walking in blustery rain with umbrella and text book under her arm
	Poet: Description:

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