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ArtistFull-width, broad, 16:9 format of an extremely detailed, delicate, intricate, richly colored impasto oil painting all the way to the edge of the canvas, of poem number 96, Nyūdō Saki no Daijōdaijin, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Not the snow of flowers, / That the hurrying wild wind whirls / Round the garden court: / What withers and falls away / In this place is I myself." The painting is executed with strongly visible brushstrokes, highlighting the falling Sakura cherry tree petals as they twirl and dance in the wind. Behind the veritable shower of petals stands a very old Japanese man in a simple, indigo-dyed robe, gazing out at the petals. His arms are crossed in front of him, his feet are planted firmly in the ground. Symbolic image equating the falling pink flower petals with the many years this old man has lived. Pronounced brushstrokes emphasize the whirling of the petals in the courtyard. Highly intricate detail, strongly symbolic, Impressionistic. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Poem No. 96 from the Japanese poetry collection Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (see https://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/hyakua.html). The scattering flower petals twirling in the wind symbolize the aging and decline of this old poet.