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Artist16:9 format of a delicate ink and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 21, Sosei Hōshi, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "It was only because you said you would come right away that I have waited these long months, till even the wan morning moon has come out." The image shows a standing Japanese woman of antiquity gazing out a a green, hilly landscape in early morning, with a pale waning moon barely visiblein the light-blue morning sky of dawn. She is a peasant, and is wearing a simple, rough, indigo-dyed cotton kosode (forerunner of the kimono). The green, hilly landscape is strongly patterned, as is the pale blue morning sky. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Poem No. 21 from the Japanese poetry collection Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (https://100poets.com/2011/08/13/a-thousand-swift-swords-poem-number-21/). This poem about a woman spurned was composed by Sosei Hōshi, a Buddhist priest.