Technique: Oil painting
Size: 1620x1300mm
Ashibikino is a word that appears in a famous Japanese waka poem from the Heian period. It evokes images of mountains and mountain birds. This painting is also inspired by a waka poem by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, a renowned master of waka from the Heian period who used this word. The poem's meaning conveys the loneliness of sleeping alone through long autumn nights and the anguish of waiting for dawn while longing for a lover. The painting interprets this meaning.