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Isoda Koryūsai

ca. 1770 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

The long hashira-e format is especially appropriate for prints about classical poetry for it recalls the shape of tanzaku, the slips of paper upon which poems were written. Koryūsai's print plays upon a poem by Bunya Yasuhide (act. 858–888): In its wake wither the autumn grasses and trees truly the wind on the mountain is to be deemed a vandal storm.

Artist

Isoda Koryūsai

Date

ca. 1770

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1921