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16:9 format of a delicate ink and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 19, Lady Ise, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Even for a time Short as a piece of the reeds In Naniwa's marsh, We must never meet again: Is this what you are asking me?" The image shows a Japanese woman of antiquity from the back. She is dressed in highly ornamented, precious robes. Her hair is put up in an an extravagant hairdo. Her slumped shoulders and the cast of her head indicate that she is melancholy, as she wistfully gazes out over strongly repetitively patterned, sumptuous reeds lining the banks of Naniwa (Osaka) inlet. Behind the reeds, blue water twinkles in the sunlight. The sky above is bedecked with intricately patterned cirrocumulus clouds. Exquisite Japanese folio.
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