This selection is from one hundred prints illustrating the Japanese poetry anthology called the Hyakunin isshu, which was compiled by the poet Fuhiwara Teika 1162-1241 .
The Hyakunin isshu has always been a popular subject and part of the japanese culture it has even taken the form of a card game.
This print illustrates the poet Hakuraten working in his study at night and an enormous hirsute ghost recites a poem autside his window.
歌川国芳 (Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1798 - 1861) This selection is from one hundred prints illustrating the Japanese poetry antology called the Hyakunin isshu, which was compiled by the poet Fuhiwara Teika 1162-1241 . The Hyakunin isshu has always been a po