The second coloring book by Mayuko Ogura based on the Hyakunin Isshu, the classic Japanese collection of one hundred poems by one hundred poets. It has 19 pictures, all newly drawn and different from those in the first volume. It is the fifth title in the coloring book series from Oizumi Shoten.
The poems include Kakinomoto no Hitomaro's verse about sleeping alone through a long autumn night, as long as the tail of a mountain pheasant, and Sugawara no Michizane's verse offering the fall leaves of Mount Tamuke to the gods. Modern Japanese translations of the poems are included.
The other poets featured are Kisen Hoshi, Semimaru, Ise, Oshikochi no Mitsune, Sakanoue no Korenori, Harumichi no Tsuraki, Ki no Tsurayuki, Kiyohara no Fukayabu, Ukon, Taira no Kanemori, Minamoto no Shigeyuki, Onakatomi no Yoshinobu, the Mother of Michitsuna, Daini no Sanmi, Akazome Emon, Gyoson and Fujiwara no Akisuke.
Translated from the Japanese original.