“Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) ca. 1634 Painting by Tawaraya Sōtatsu Japanese This poem card comes from a set of more than twenty surviving sheets, each of which is illustrated with a scene from the tenth-century Tales of Ise and accompanied by a poem from the relevant chapter inscribed by a calligrapher of the day. In this episode, a courtier traveling on Mount Utsu (literally, “mountain of sadness”) meets an itinerant monk on his way to Kyoto and asks him to give his regards to a lover in the distant naru Utsu no yamabe no utsutsu ni mo yum
“Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) ca. 1634 Painting by Tawaraya Sōtatsu Japanese This poem card comes from a set of more than twenty surviving sheets, each of which is illustrated with a scene from the tenth-century Tales of Ise and accompanied by a poem from the relevant chapter inscribed by a calligrapher of the day. In this episode, a courtier traveling on Mount Utsu (literally, “mountain of sadness”) meets an itinerant monk on his way to Kyoto and asks him to give his regards to a lover in the distant naru Utsu no yamabe no utsutsu ni mo yume ni mo hito ni awanu narikeri Amid the “sad hills”of Mount Utsuin Suruga Province,I cannot meet my lover,not even in my dreams.—Trans. John T. Carpenter. “Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) 52988
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