signature seal (hanko) impression for KURI-SU

amulet for one born in a Monkey year, from Tadou Taisha shrine, Mie Prefecture

Acknowledgements

VARIOUS PAGES: The sketchbooks of Hiroshige in the Library of Congress have been published, with commentary by Sherman E. Lee (New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1984).

HOME PAGE: The text of the haiku is from no. 11 of the list below, p. 238.
TACHIBANA SCHOOL ... ACTIVITIES: The button gives a glimpse of bunraku being performed by the ladies of the Edo Chiyoda castle; it is from one of the triptychs of Toyohara Chikanobu (1838-1912). The excerpt from the festive piece (shuugimono) Tsurukame is from a 1964 Columbia recording oiwai to enkai no uta "Songs for celebrations and parties." It is performed by Yoshimura Ijuurou.

... SUMMER FESTIVAL: The button shows a bit of merrymaking at an inn at Miya, stop #41 on the Toukaidou; this drawing by Hiroshige appears on an Edo-period parcheesi board titled Ukiyoe-hizakurige "Ukiyo-e journey on shank's mare" (reprint Tokyo, Okuno Card Shop, no date). The board is inspired by the comic novel "The Toukaidou on shank's mare." I do not know the source of this recording of Tankou bushi.
SOURCES OF SOME PREVIOUSLY CITED HAIKU AND OTHER POETRY:

1. Matsuo Basho, A Monkey's Raincoat, tr. by Maeda Cana (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973).
2. Janine Beichman, Masaoka Shiki (Tokyo and New York: Kodansha, 1986).
3. R. H. Blyth, Haiku. Volume 1 Eastern Culture (Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1949).
4. _____, Haiku. Volume 2 Spring (reprint, Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1981).
5. _____, Haiku. Volume 3 Summer - Autumn (reprint, Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1982).
6. _____, Haiku. Volume 4 Autumn - Winter (reprint, Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1982).
7. Paula Doe, A Warbler's Song in the Dusk. The Life and Work of Otomo Yakamochi (718—785) (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, 1982).
8. Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi, Chiyo-ni. Woman Haiku Master (Rutland, Vt.-Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Publishing, 1998).
9. Harold G. Henderson, An Introduction to Haiku (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1958).
10. Lewis Mackenzie, tr., The Autumn Wind. A Selection from the Poems of Issa (Tokyo-New York: Kodansha, 1984).
11. Makoto Ueda, Basho and his Interpreters. Selected Hokku with Commentary (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992).
12. Yuzuru Miura, Clasic Haiku. A Master's Selection (Rutland, Vt.-Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Publishing, 1991).

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