PICTURES OF THE HEART PICTURES UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I PRESS HONOLULU OF THE HEART THE HYAKUNIN ISSHU IN WORD AND IMAGE Joshua S. Mostow © 1996 University of Hawai‘i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 01 00 99 98 97 96 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mostow, Joshua S., 1957– Pictures of the heart : the Hyakunin isshu in word and image / Joshua S. Mostow. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–8248–1705–2 (alk. paper) 1. Ogura hyakunin isshu. 2. Waka—History and criticism. 3. Japanese poetry—To 1600—History and criticism. 4. Waka—Translations into English. 5. Japanese poetry—To 1600—Translations into English. 6. Waka— Illustrations. 7. Japanese poetry—To 1600—Illustrations. I. Ogura hyakunin isshu. English & Japanese. II. Title. PL728.5.04M64 1995 895.6'1108—dc20 95–30185 CIP Publication of this book has been assisted by a grant from the Japan Foundation. The excerpt on pp. 90–91 is from The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, trans. E. G. Seidensticker. Copyright © 1975 by Edward G. Seidensticker. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A Knopf Inc. The excerpt on p. 78 is from The Ink Dark Moon by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratami. Copyright © 1990 by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratami. Reprinted by permission of Vintage Books, a division of Random House Inc. University of Hawai‘i Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Council on Library Resources Book design by Kenneth Miyamoto Writ in a language that has long gone by . And every margin scribbled, crost, and crammed With comment, densest condensation, hard . And in the comment did I find the charm. —Tennyson, Idylls of the King, Bk. VI To my mother Gloria Margaret Swan Mostow Pelletier .