The Tama River at Ide, Yamashiro Province. Artist: Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725-1770). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (26 x 19.7 cm). Date: probably 1766.The poetry of place and place name has a long and evocative tradition in Japanese literature. Locations, celebrated sites called meisho, often evoked a season, a certain emotion or a famous historical or fictional event. The accumulated associations were so strong that a place name became a synedoche, an indispensable device for infusing the short poetic forms of Japan with broader meaning. Ukiyo-e artists, too, made use of such allusions, both to the place and its use in classical literature, to expand and to play upon meaning.The six Tamagawa ("Jewel Rivers")--Ide, Mishima (or Kinuta), Noji, Koya, Chofu and Noda--were a non-traditional meisho subject that became popular in the early eighteenth century as the theme for poetry, song and dance. Harunobu most likely drew inspiration for this print series from the use