Image: Teika-sarashina-nikki-calligraphy
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Description: This is a scan of page 29 of Fujiwara no Teika's Hundred-Poem Sequence of the Shoji Era, 1200, translated by Robert H. Brower. Published by Sophia University in 1978; ISBN 3-5042-00878 Invalid ISBN-5389 (?) It is a page of calligraphy of a work called the Sarashina nikki (a travel diary by Sugawara no Takasue no musume (Sugawara no Takasue's daughter) that Fujiwara no Teika copied in his later years. The first two lines (starting from right to left) are a poem that goes "Like me, the waterfowl / Spends it night in wretchedness: / Floating on the pond, / Shivering in fitful sleep / As it shakes the hoarfrost from its wings." (pg 80)
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