Ta no kuroya, haiku poem on tanzaku card Mukai Kyorai Oda no niji, haiku poem on tanzaku card Kagami Shiko Haru nareya, haiku poem on tanzaku card Morikawa Kyoriku Mid-Edo Period (17th century) Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Collection
Ta no kuroya, haiku poem on tanzaku card
Mukai Kyorai
Oda no niji, haiku poem on tanzaku card
Kagami Shiko
Haru nareya, haiku poem on tanzaku card
Morikawa Kyoriku
Mid-Edo Period (17th century)
Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Collection
These three tanzaku poem cards, with poems about frogs composed by Basho’s disciples Kyorai, Shiko and Kyoriku, were originally part of the “Seventeen Poems about Frogs” collection of tanzaku cards that were pasted and displayed on a folding screen.
The exact circumstances surrounding the creation of this folding screen are unknown, but Basho’s famous haiku furuike ya / kawazu tobikomu / mizu no oto (the old pond – / a frog jumps in, / water’s sound*) was undoubtedly a significant influence.
*translation: Makoto Ueda
