The Burke Collection
Composing One Thousand Poems in a Day
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Artist

Tachibana Gitoku

(橘祇徳; d. 1767)

Catalogue information

Edo period

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

26.5 x 47.2 cm (10 3/8 x 18 5/8 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Additional details

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Text

by Gitoku

In front of Hitomaro Shrine / composed poems all day all alone / to fulfill the vow to compose one thousand poems in a day. // Late in the day / that is drawing to a close / at the God’s domicile.

Signature

Painted by Gitoku

Seal

Tachibana gai Gitoku