#170 When the white snow falls,…
| Size： | about 33×24 cm |
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| Dressing： | framed |
What kind of verse?
| verse: | Shirayuki no, furishiku toki ha, Miyoshino no, yamashita kaze ni, hana zo chiri keru |
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| (imho): | When the white snow falls, it is as if flowers are scattered in the wind blowing down the slopes of the Yoshino Mountains. |
| poet: | Ki, Tsurayuki |
| in: | before 913 |
Note
This year’s “NHK’s historical epic series”, which is the biggest dram program in Japan, is set in mid-Heian period 1000 years ago. It is just the era when the “kana-sho” began to be widely used.
The main character in this dram is Murasaki Shikibu, a woman who was famous for writer of “Genji monogatari”.
Personally, what interests me is the scene where the characters are writing “kana-sho”.
Although the lead actress is left-handed, she has trained to write kana beautifully. The way she writes with the paper on her desk, in her lap, or floating in the air is reminiscent of the Heian period people who freely controlled their brushes.
If you were interested in the “kana-sho”, how about watching the program?
Ki, Turayuki is well known as a expert of such the “kana-sho”, who was born about hundred years before Murasaki Shikibu. The poem of this work was created by him.