...much better known under the name Andō Hiroshige, one of the three outstanding, world-renowned masters of ukiyo-e beside Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. The illustration is from the kabuki play 冥途の飛脚 Meido no hikyaku “The Courier of Hell”, a love-suicide play, in which the son of... /12

...a kind of postal courier & a prostitute fall in love. I'm lost for understanding the thematic connection between this illustration & the poem, but it is probably frustrated hope and expectations. Also the theme of autumn seems to be common to both. Image: © The Trustees of the British Museum /13