This 1910 image shows six poets, each with a quote from the work of each, from the Nara and Heian period in Japan. They are left, from top to bottom, and right, top to bottom: Ariwara no Narihira (825-880), Japanese courtier and waka poet of the early Heian period. He was named one of both the Six Poetic Geniuses and the Thirty-Six Poetic Geniuses: “if cherry blossoms were not found anywhere in the world, then, of course, my heart should remain still in spring.” ---Sosei Hoshi d I Priester Sosei (around 900), Japanese waka poet and Buddhist priest. He is listed as one of the Thirty-six Poetry
This 1910 image shows six poets, each with a quote from the work of each, from the Nara and Heian period in Japan. They are left, from top to bottom, and right, top to bottom: Ariwara no Narihira (825-880), Japanese courtier and waka poet of the early Heian period. He was named one of both the Six Poetic Geniuses and the Thirty-Six Poetic Geniuses: “if cherry blossoms were not found anywhere in the world, then, of course, my heart should remain still in spring.” ---Sosei Hoshi d I Priester Sosei (around 900), Japanese waka poet and Buddhist priest. He is listed as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals: “just because she said she was coming right now, I expected the long moon's early sky moon, which is really rising now.”--- Sarumaru-dayu. (about 880?), a waka poet in the early Heian period, is a member of the Thirty Six Poetic Sages: “where from far and near nothing more is known in the middle of the mountains, now so doubtful, oh, the cry of the calling bird.”---Kakinomoto no Hitomaro. (about 700), a Japanese waka poet and aristocrat of the late Asuka period: “at dawn on ukashi's shore in the morning fog the ship that circles the island, oh, i'm pondering.”---Taira no Kanemori (died 990), a middle Heian period waka poet and Japanese nobleman, is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals: “years and moons piling up on me in ever increasing numbers, to say goodbye and greet, oh, what was to come, urged me.”---Onakatomi no Yoshinobu (922-991), a middle Heian period waka poet and Japanese nobleman: “and if the pine is limited to years to come - sir, since you pull it, it will probably outlast ten thousand generations.”
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