Portrait of the poet Hitomaro, Japanese, Yamato School, 13th century (1886). Artist: Unknown # 2365549

Portrait of the poet Hitomaro, Japanese, Yamato School, 13th century (1886). Artist: Unknown

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Portrait of the poet Hitomaro, Japanese, Yamato School, 13th century (1886). Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (c662-710) was a poet of the late Asuka period. Painted after a manifestation of the original seen in a dream. From the Wa-kan mei gwa-yen. A print from The Pictorial Arts of Japan, by William Anderson, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London, 1886.