Writing box with portrait of Fujiwara no Ietaka and his poem about the Tatsuta River. Japan, 18th c. Lacquered wood with gold and silver hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, and red lacquer on silver ground. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [5467×2467] [OC]
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*On Tatsuta River,*
*a layer of red maple leaves*
*is trapped within thin ice,*
*and if we were to go across*
*the brocade would be torn.*
—Trans. John T. Carpenter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Ietaka