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ArtistFull-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of an extremely detailed vanitas-type oil painting of poem number 75, Fujiwara no Mototoshi, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "As dew promises / New life to the thirsty plant, / So did your vow to me. / Yet the year has passed away, / And autumn has come again." Dew richly covers a flowerbed of Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps), glittering and shimmering in the early morning sun, breaking the light into rainbow colors. The dew stands for a promise - which, alas, was later broken. But in this image, the hyperrealistic dewdrops, each reflecting and magnifying the leaves next to it, present a breathtaking spectacle. Painstakingly detailed, hyperrealistic oil painting in the technique of the old Dutch vanitas masters. The vanitas concept embraces the fleeting nature of life - like this soon to be broken proomise. Exquisite Japanese foilio.
Poem No. 74 from the Japanese poetry collection Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (see https://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/hyakua.html). While the plants pictured are not Japanese mugwort, they were too pretty to reject. The main idea is that the vanitas is supposed to represent a broken promise - given quickly, and forgotten quickly.