In this poets’ portrait, five poems about spring flowers composed by Priest Jakunen in the twelfth century accompany an image of him. This type of poem is known as waka, and this particular group of waka poems is written in katakana, a system for recording the Japanese syllabic alphabets that was developed by Buddhist monks while transcribing the difficult pronunciations of sutra texts. Attributed to the court artist Fujiwara Tameie, this work follows the style and composition of a group of paintings of famous poets and poetry from the late twelfth century. This is an unusual example; poets’ portraits rarely include the subject’s own waka in katakana.