Parody of Palace Servants Heating Sake over a Fire of Maple Leaves. Artist: Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image: 16 5/16 × 11 3/4 in. (41.4 × 29.8 cm). Date: ca. 1750.In one scene of The Tale of the Heike, Emperor Takakura happens upon servants who have swept up maple leaves to make a fire to heat sake. The emperor remarks that they seem to be aware of a poem by the Tang poet Bo Juyi alluding to just such a scene. In this parody of the episode, one of the servants plays a three-stringed shamisen, which is anachronistic, since the instrument was not used in Japan until the seventeenth century. Beside the scene the artist has added a hokku (seventeen-syllable seasonal poem), perhaps of his own compositionIrozuku ya momiji o takite sake no kanHow colorful!Burning crimson leavesto heat rice wine--Trans. John T. Carpenter. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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Parody of Palace Servants Heating Sake over a Fire of Maple Leaves. Artist: Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image: 16 5/16 × 11 3/4 in. (41.4 × 29.8 cm). Date: ca. 1750.In one scene of The Tale of the Heike, Emperor Takakura happens upon servants who have swept up maple leaves to make a fire to heat sake. The emperor remarks that they seem to be aware of a poem by the Tang poet Bo Juyi alluding to just such a scene. In this parody of the episode, one of the servants plays a three-stringed shamisen, which is anachronistic, since the instrument was not used in Japan until the seventeenth century. Beside the scene the artist has added a hokku (seventeen-syllable seasonal poem), perhaps of his own compositionIrozuku ya momiji o takite sake no kanHow colorful!Burning crimson leavesto heat rice wine--Trans. John T. Carpenter. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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