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Artist16:9 format of a painstakingly crafted, extremely detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and multilayered woodblock rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 60, Koshikibu no Naishi, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "By Ōe Mountain / The road to Ikuno / Is far away, / And neither have I beheld / Nor crossed its bridge of heaven." The image shows a mountain, snow-capped Ōe Mountain, in the distance. A winding road leads through rolling wheat fields from the viewer to the mountain. An elaborate wooden bridge in the style of a painted, wooden Japanese temple over a small stream can be made out on the road ahead, Rendered as a fine woodcut partly additionally complemented by wet watercolor exectued in a style reminiscent of the great Japanese woodcut artists. Deft execution, peaceful landscape motif. Old masters' technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Poem No. 60 from the Japanese poetry collection Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (see https://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/hyakua.html).