Yashima Gakutei: Geisha and Peacock - Robyn Buntin of Honolulu

Artist: Yashima Gakutei

Title: Geisha and Peacock

Date: Meiji

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Source: Robyn Buntin of Honolulu
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The woman in the roundel is a geisha who was the poet, Naonari's friend, since the emblem shaped like a sailing boat, both on her fan and on the poem slip to the right, is a fanciful form of the character nao, the first half of the poet's name. The poem describes a peacock. 'Tori mo kite asobu hikage no nagaki o ni kogane iro masu tama no hatsuharu' The bird comes to play and the jewelled early Spring makes the long tails of the sunbeams more golden.

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