Sixth Month from Fujiwara no Teika?s Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months, 尾形乾山筆　定家詠十二ヶ月和歌花鳥図「拾遺愚草』より六月, Edo period (1615?1868), 1743, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 6 1/4 x 9 1/8 in. (15. 9 x 23. 2 cm), Paintings, Ogata Kenzan (Japanese, 1663?1743), These small paintings were separated from a group of twelve representing plants and animals symbolic of the twelve months, each inscribed with two poems. For the sixth month, the poems celebrate tokonatsu (wild pinks) and the cormorant, a bird used for night fishing: Ōkata no hikage ni itō minazuki no sora sae oshiki tokonatsu no hana Mijika yo no ukawa ni noboru kagaribi no hayaku sugiyuku minazuki no sora Even though most people dread the sixth month since the sun is so bright, if wild pinks are in bloom then it does have its charms