Competition Between Poets of Different Eras (Jidai fudō uta awase), depicting the poet Minamoto no Hitoshi, 13th century

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Competition Between Poets of Different Eras (Jidai fudō uta awase), depicting the poet Minamoto no Hitoshi, Kamakura period (1185–1333), 13th century, Japan, Section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 11 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. ( x cm), Paintings, This hanging scroll illustrates part of an imaginary poetry competition among fifty poets from the past. The selection of poems from old anthologies and their arrangement into 'competing' pairs is traditionally attributed to Emperor Gotoba (1180–1236), perhaps Japanese poetry's greatest patron

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