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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 58, Daini no Sanmi, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "As Mount Arima / Sends its rustling winds across / Ina's bamboo plains, / I will be just as steadfast / And never will forget you." The image shows a highly detailed field of bamboo grass in beaturuful shades of green and tan being blown and bent by the wind. The bamboo grass is bent away from the steady wind. The woodcut is the perfect medium to show, in painstaking detail, the repetitive patterns of the bamboo grass. On the horizon, in the distance, lies Mount Arima. Woodcut partly additionally complemented by wet watercolor exectued in a style reminiscent of the great Japanese woodcut artists. Deft execution, introspective, peaceful nature motif. Old masters' technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
A serene, stylized landscape is portrayed in an ukiyo-e-inspired art style, featuring a majestic green mountain with distinct ridges and peaks, possibly Mount Fuji, centrally located in the background under a pale yellow-beige sky. In the mid-ground, rolling hills and valleys are depicted with a textured, linear pattern in various shades of brown and green, suggesting cultivated fields or natural undulations of the earth. Dark green outlines of coniferous trees are visible on the distant hills. The foreground is dominated by a field of tall, flowing grasses in shades of green, yellow, and beige, artfully rendered with individual blades defined by thin black outlines and linear textures, giving a sense of movement in the wind. The overall color palette is muted yet rich, with earthy tones and shades of green prevailing, framed by a thin black border.