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Artist16:9 format of a delicate ink and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 39, Sangi Hitoshi, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Though I reveal my love / as sparingly as the sparse reeds / that grow in low bamboo fields, / it overwhelms me - why is it / that I must love her so?" We see a gently sloping, green meadow densely populated by shorter reed grass, among which stands taller bamboo grass. Extreme woodcut esthetic. The sky is filled with little, puffy clouds rendered as woodcut lines that, upon closer inspection, hide the barely discernible image of a Japanese man. The Japanese man is definitely to be made out in the clouds. Combination linocut and woodcut, hand-colored additionally with watercolors, executed in a style reminiscent of Kawase Hasui. Deft execution, melancholy motif. Old masters' technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Poem No. 39 from the Japanese poetry collection Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (https://100poets.com/2011/08/13/a-thousand-swift-swords-poem-number-39). Do you see the Japanese man in the pttern of the clouds and sky? No? Well, he's supposed to be there.