A stone on the grounds of Shiroishi Castle engraved with a poem about kamiko. The poem is a haiku by 17th century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, and reads as follows:
A shimmer of warm air
Rises up from the shoulder
Of my paper kimono
かげろふの我が肩に立つ紙子かな
kagerō no waga kata ni tatsu kamiko kana
This is the source of the frottage (takuhon) in files with the session number S09
Funding
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
History
Session
S09
Rights owner
Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran
Cultural group
Japanese
Participants
Fumiko Satō, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran
Country
Japan
Place
Shiroishi, Miyagi
Item/object
A stone on the grounds of Shiroishi Castle engraved with a poem about kamiko. The poem is a haiku by 17th century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694)
Techniques of production
carved
Cultural context/event
Teaching-learning
Temporality
The poem is a haiku by 17th century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694)