National Museum of Asian Art
On one side Narihira and the pilgrim; on the other, chrysanthemums and a brook
Ogata Korin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716) · late 17th- early 18th century
On one side of this circular fan is a painting illustrating a passage from the Tales of Ise, a work of narratives and poems probably composed in the tenth century by an unknown author. In this passage, travelers encounter a dark pass through the mountains. They sense the desolate remoteness from their familiar world in Kyoto and express this feeling in a poem:
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