Ashide Utae - Sing with your feet

Japanese: 葦手歌絵 - あしでうたえ
Ashide Utae - Sing with your feet

...Uta-e paintings have a playful character in that the poet must decipher the poem from the painting. This led to the popularity of the riddle-picture style, in which parts of the poem were hidden in the painting using Ashi-te characters. Ashi-te uta-e paintings are particularly prevalent in the lacquer-e designs of hand boxes and inkstone boxes from the Kamakura period. [Midori Sano]...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Ashide Utae" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…歌絵には絵から歌を判じさせる遊戯的な性格が含まれている。そこで葦手文字を使って歌の一部を絵の中に隠す判じ絵的趣向が流行し,とくに鎌倉時代の手箱や硯箱の蒔絵文様には葦手歌絵が多く見られる。【佐野 みどり】。…

※「葦手歌絵」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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