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Artist16:9 format of a painstakingly crafted, extremely detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and multilayered woodblock rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 58, Daini no Sanmi, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "As Mount Arima / Sends its rustling winds across / Ina's bamboo plains, / I will be just as steadfast / And never will forget you." The image shows a highly detailed field of bamboo grass in beaturuful shades of green and tan being blown and bent by the wind. The bamboo grass is bent away from the steady wind. The woodcut is the perfect medium to show, in painstaking detail, the repetitive patterns of the bamboo grass. On the horizon, in the distance, lies Mount Arima. Woodcut partly additionally complemented by wet watercolor exectued in a style reminiscent of the great Japanese woodcut artists. Deft execution, introspective, peaceful nature motif. Old masters' technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Poem No. 58 from the Japanese poetry collection Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (see https://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/hyakua.html). This image is about a love that is as steadfast as the wind rustling through the bamboo plains. "...a poem composed about a man who had grown distant toward Daini no Sanmi, and that he was uneasy because he believed her feelings for him had changed. ... In other words, she was worried about his feelings because she cared about him." (https://100poets.com/2012/03/13/rustling-of-the-grass-poe…).