Prompt: 16:9 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.
Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate illustration with rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 57, Murasaki Shikibu, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "As I was wondering / whether or not I had seen it / by chance, / it became cloud-hidden, / the face of the midnight moon!" The image shows a modern Japanese woman in a business blazer and skirt standing on a busy sidewalk facing the viewer. Pedestrians pass her by in the opposite direction, away from the viewer, rushing past her in a blur. Only the woman is completly in focus. She has a bewildered expression on her face, as if she has just seen someone and is trying to process what exactly she saw. It is night, and neon advertisement signs are flashing in bright colors. High above the myriad, colorful neon signs is a nighttime sky with a very small, pale, white moon half-hidden behind clouds. The image is permeated by a sense of confusion and melancholy. The image is rendered as an exceedingly detailed, highly symbolic, large, zentangle-like, watercolor magazine illustration with enormous detail at the "Where's Waldo?" level. Extreme clarity of rendering, contemporary, symbolical motif. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 56, Izumi Shikibu, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Among my memories / or this world, from whence / Iwill soon be gone, / oh, how I wish there was / one mor meeting, now, with you!" We see a close-up of an very old but regal and elegant Japanese woman in profile. She has gray hair elegantly captured in a bun and is wearing loose, elegant, contemporary clothing. She has all the bearing of a noblewoman as she sits in front of a window at night, gazing out. The window captures a ghostly reflection of a former lover, a very handsome, 20-something Japanese man. The reflection is a projection of the Japanese woman's memory of her lover. The setting is contemporary, in a stark apartment with simple furniture and a single vase with an artfully arranged floral display. Wistful, melancholy, end-of-life atmosphere. The image is rendered as an exceedingly detailed, highly symbolic, large, zentangle-like linocut with enormous detail. Clarity of rendering, timeless, symbolical motif. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 55, Dainagon Kintō, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Though the waterfall / Ceased its flowing long ago, / And its sound is stilled, / Yet, in name it ever flows, / And in fame may yet be heard." The image consists of two layers superimposed like two panes of glass: The layer undeneath features a mountainside with a lively, sparkling, silver waterfall dashing merrily down rocks to a still, dark pool among rich, verdant vegetation. The second layer, semi-transparently covering the first layer, shows the same mountainside, but the vegetaion has withered and the waterfall no longer exists, exposing the craggy rocks beneath the erstwhile waterfall. The layer underneath is a memory, and the layer on top is a currnet representation of the landscape. The image is rendered as an exceedingly detailed, highly symbolic, large, zentangle-like, hand-colored woodcut with enormous detail. Clarity of rendering, timeless, symbolical motif. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 54, Gidō Sanshi no Haha, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "If remembering me / Will for him in future years / Be too difficult, / It would be well this very day / That I should end my life." The image shows a Japanese wedding couple during the Heian period. The Japanese bride and the Japanese groom are standing next to each other, facing the viewer. They are dressed in splendid robes made of silk with a floral pattern worven with shimmering colors. The woman is stone-faced and emotionless. The man is fully transparent, as if he were a ghost or only a figment of the woman's imagination. The couple is standing in a simple hallway into which the starlight shines. The colors are dark around the edges of the hallway, only the couple is well-lit, with the man being but a transparent projection. The image is rendered as an exceedingly detailed, highly symbolic, large, zentangle-like linocut with enormous detail. Clarity of rendering, timeless, symbolical motif. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 53 - Udaishō Michitsuna no Haha
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Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 53, Udaishō Michitsuna no Haha, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Lying all alone, / Through the hours of the night, / Till the daylight comes: / Can you realize at all / The emptiness of that night?" The image shows a lonely, contemporary Japanese woman dressed in a silk bathrobe she is hugging tightly around her. She is standing at the window of her apartment, looking out into the gloomy night sky, her back to us. She is in her bedroom, wainting for daybreak. She reflects on her emotional pain, frustration and loneliness. Her husband is spending time with his mistress and has abandoned his wife to solitude and melancholy. The nighttime sky is overcast, and the entire image seems steeped in darkness, except for a dim night light located outside the image on the right-hand side. The dim light strikes the woman's silhouette from the right, so that the pattern of her silk bathrobe and her messily arranged hairdo become visible, and casts faint shadows that put the left side of the image into complete darkness. The colors range from faint yellow to deep, velvety black, with a range of blues and grays in between. The image is rendered as an exceedingly detailed, highly symbolic, large, zentangle-like woodcut with enormous detail. Clarity of rendering, timeless, symbolical motif combining a traditional woodcut with a contemporary zentangle esthetic. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 52 - Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason
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Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 52, Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Though I know indeed / That the night will come again / After day has dawned, / Still, in truth, I hate the sight / Of the morning's coming light." The image shows a very early, cold dawn outside the window of a spartan room. The light of dawn shows in shades of blue, pale yellow, and delicate orange on the horizon, whereas the sky higher up is still very dark blue. The view of the window toward the Eastern sky is from an unmade bed with crumpled sheets. The image is rendered as an exceedingly detailed, highly symbolic zentangle-like wet watercolor, with strong, rich and varied colors. Extreme detail, clarity of rendering, timeless, symbolical motif combining wet watercolor with a low-poly and contemporary zentangle esthetic. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 51 - Fujiwara no Sanekata
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Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 51, Fujiwara no Sanekata, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "How can I tell her / How fierce my love for her is? / Will she understand / That the love I feel for her / Burns like Ibuki's fire plant?" The image shows an well-polished, ancient oak table with a bundle of dried mugwort tied with a satin ribbon. Next to the bundle of dried mugwort lies a moxibustion set. The therapy room in which the table stands is dark, only the table and the moxibustion parapernelia are well-lit. The image is rendered as an exceedingly detailed, highly symbolic zentangle-like woodcut, with strong, rich and varied colors. Extreme detail, clarity of rendering, timeless, symbolical motif combined with a classical woodcut and contemporary zentangle esthetic and masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 50 - Fujiwara no Yoshitaka
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Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 50, Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Even the life that / I'd not have been sorry to lose / just to meet you once, / now, having met, I think: / 'I want it to last forever'!" The image shows a futon in a Japanese house with messy bedclothes and a sumptuous, exquisitely embroidered silk bed spread, crumpled by the bedside. The bedspread has the sheen of silk and a highly ornate bird-and-blossom pattern in exquisite colors - shades of green, pink, magenta, burgundy and yellow - and is the focus of the image. The silk bedspread symbolizes the poet's love for his lover on the morning after. The stark bed and room contrast sharply with the floral sumptuousness of the bedspread. The image is rendered as an exceedingly detailed, highly symbolic zentangle-like woodcut, with strong, rich and varied colors. Extreme detail, clarity of rendering, timeless, symbolical motif combined with a classical woodcut and contemporary zentangle esthetic and masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 49 - Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
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Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 49, Onakatomi no Yoshinobu, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Like the guard's fires / Kept at the imperial gateway-- / Burning through the night, / Dull in ashes through the day-- / Is the love aglow in me." The image shows an impressive, massive, ornate,pompous imperial gate to the emperor's court. On the left side and on the right side of the gate, a guard's fire is burning brightly, illuminating the gate and the immediate surroundings. The edges of the image are dark, and the starr-filled sky is dark. The image focuses fully on the guard fires and the ornate gate between them. The fires are burining in metal braziers in the shape of large bowls, and they are sending bright sparks into the air above. The image is rendered as an exceedingly detailed, highly symbolic zentangle-like woodcut, with strong, rich and varied colors. The gate and the fires are executed in profound detail, whereas the surroundings are executed more hastily. The composition is lively. Extreme detail, clarity of rendering, timeless, symbolical motif combined with a classical woodcut and contemporary zentangle esthetic and masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 48 - Minamoto no Shigeyuki
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Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 48, Minamoto no Shigeyuki, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Like a driven wave, / Dashed by fierce winds on a rock, / So am I: alone / And crushed upon the shore, / Remembering what has been." The ocean is buffeted by a gale-force storm driving mighty waves onto the shore made of high, rocky cliffs. The left side of the image shows the cliffs stretching out along the shore. The right side of the image shows ocean spray and foam flying high into the air as the waves crash into the cliffs. Dark blue-gray clouds scud before the gusts of wind. The ocean is a dark blue-green with white foam. The crashing waves symbolize the poet's desparation. The unmoved, rocky cliffs symbolize the dispassionate object of his desire. The image is executed as an exceedingly detailed, highly symbolic woodcut, with a strong, wet watercolor wash overlay, providing rich and varied colors and splashes. The ocean, the wind, and the clouds are rendered in painstaking detail; the composition is lively. Extreme detail, clarity of rendering, timeless, symbolical motif combined with a classical woodcut esthetic and masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 47, Egyō Hōshi, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "To the lonely house / where the weeds, eight layers deep, / have grown rank, / not a soul can be seen - / but autumn, at least, has come." This image shows a simple, dilapidated Japanese hut made of stone in the midst of high, dry, spent weeds that have gone to seed. Some of the weedy vines have engulfed the hut and have climbed almost all the way to the roof. It is autumn, and the air is crisp, the sky is blue with puffy, white clouds. The lovely fall day hides the fact that the house is lonely, decrepit, and that winter is around the corner. The hut symbolizes a person in the fall of life. The image is executed as a detailed, highly symbolic woodcut, with a strong, rich, wet watercolor wash overlay. Extreme detail, clarity of rendering, timeless motif combined with a classical woodcut esthetic and masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 46, Sone no Yoshitada,of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Like a mariner / Sailing over Yura's strait / With his rudder gone: / Where, over the deep of love, / The end lies, I do not know." This image shows a Japanese sailor in a small skiff being tossed about by Hokusai-style waves. The young Japanese sailor has lost one of his two oars, so he is quite distraught and lacks orientation in the high waves. The weather is stormy, with rain and wind driving the the skiff in all directions. The image is executed as a detailed, highly symbolic woodcut, with the young sailor lost and without direction in the straits of love. Extreme detail, timeless motif combined with a classical woodcut esthetic and masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 45, Kentokukō,of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Not one person who would / call my plight pathetic / comes at all to mind, / and so, uselessly, / I must surely die!" This image shows a desparate, young Japanese man standing in front of a large, modern window wall of in a very chic, open-plan house. He is standing outside in a bamboo patch, trying to gain the attention of the young Japanese woman inside the house. She is ignoring him, with her back turned to him, as she prepares tea in the kitchen. The young woman has spurned his love countless times, but he continues to persistently stalk her. The image combines an extremely detailed, richly colored, old-fashined woodcut technique with contemporary bokeh elements and some impasto abstraction. The two figures stand out in great detail, and the bamboo patch is painstakingly rendered as a woodcut, but the background, the open-plan house, is rendered in bokeh. Extreme detail, cutting-edge contemporary motif combined with old-fashioned artistic elements. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 44, Chūnagon Asatada, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "If it should happen / That we never met again, / I would not complain; / And I doubt that she or I / Would feel that we were left alone." Two realistic, young, chic, urban, contemporary Japanese in their early twenties are standing completely back to back, ignoring each other. One is a young Japanese woman dressed as a Gothic Lolita. With his back to her, the second person is a young Japanese man in candy-colored, frilly and demure Jirai Danshi fashion that makes him look very feminine and coy. The two had a one-night stand, but, as they obviously live in very different spheres, their love is over. Now, they're ignoring each other and pretending that they're strangers. The image combines an extremely detailed, richly colored, linocut technique with contemporary bokeh elements and looks a bit like a realistic Lomo photograph. The clothes are shown in great detail, but the background, an urban setting, is bokeh. Extreme detail, cutting-edge contemporary motif. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Full-screen 16:9 format of a delicate ink and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem a fox wearing glasses sits next to a black rabbit : "I have met my love. / When I compare this present / With feelings of the past, / My passion is now as if / I have never loved before." The The image combines an extremely detailed, richly colored, woodcut technique with watercolor and is executed in the style of Hokusai. Extreme detail, contemporary motif. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 43 - Fujiwara no Atsutada
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Prompt: Full-screen 16:9 format of a delicate ink and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 43, Fujiwara no Atsutada, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "I have met my love. / When I compare this present / With feelings of the past, / My passion is now as if / I have never loved before." The image shows a young, pretty, dreamy-eyed, well-dressed Japanese salesgirl behind the well-lit perfume counter of a large department store, where she works. She is not concentrating on her work, but rather is leaning over the counter and is visibly contemplating a recent memory of being with her new love. The image combines an extremely detailed, richly colored, woodcut technique with watercolor and is executed in the style of Hokusai. Extreme detail, contemporary motif. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 42 - Kiyohara no Motosuke
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Prompt: Full-screen 16:9 format of a delicate ink and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 42, Kiyohara no Motosukei, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Our sleves were wet with tears / As pledges that our love - / Will last until / Over Sue's Mount of Pines / Ocean waves are breaking." The image shows a forlorn, weeping young Japanese man in a very ornately woven and patterned, red suikan. The garment is very loose-fitting and has very large sleeves. He is wiping his eyes with one wet sleeve as if it were a tissue. His lover's feelings have grown cold, even though the lovers had sworn each other eternal love during their time of passion. The man is standing in front of a pine tree rendered in high detailed; the pine tree is growing on Sue-no-Matsu Mountain. The image combines an extremely detailed, richly colored, woodcut technique with watercolor and is executed in the style of Hokusai. Extreme detail, lively motif. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Full-screen 16:9 format of a delicate ink and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 41, Mibu no Tadami, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "My name already / is bandied about with / rumors I'm in love - / though, unknown to anyone, I thought, / I had only just begun to love her!" The image shows an animated group of four young Japanese salarymen sitting at a bar counter after work, engaged in eye-winking, lighthearted banter. One of the young men cups his hand near another's ear and is whispering something. The third young man in the group is looking lovelorn at a beautiful, contemporary young Japanese woman sitting apart from the group at the other end of the L-shaped bar. She has coyly and demurely lowered her eyes. The image combines an extremely detailed, richly colored, mineral pigment technique with watercolor and is rendered according to Nihonga art principles. Deft execution, whimsical motif. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Full-screen 16:9 format of a delicate ink and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 40, Taira no Kanemori, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Evem though I hide it, / it shows all over my face, / such is my longing, / so that people ask me / 'What are you thinking about?' " A contemporary, handsome, lithe, adolescent Japanese man dressed unassumingly in a white shirt and dark slacks stands half in, half outside a wood slat closet door. He has a pained look on his face, and is holding the doorknob, trying to decide whether he should come out of the closet or go inside. The hidden part of this young man's figure can be seen in the spaces between the vertical wooden slats. Combination linocut and woodcut, richly hand-colored additionally with watercolors, executed in a style reminiscent of Kawase Hasui. Deft execution, melancholy motif. Old masters' technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: 16:9 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.
Prompt: 16:9 format of a delicate ink and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 38, Ukon, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Forgotten by him / I do not think of myself. / But I can't help worry / about the life of the man who / swore so fervently before the gods!" A contemporary woman spurned by her lover sits sadly and contemplatively on a Japanese platform-style bed made of dark wood. The bed is pristine and perfectly made up with light-brown sheets and pillows. The elegant, young woman is despondently holding her head in her palms and is staring glumly out of the window of her high-rise apartment. The quiet of the starkly decorated, perfectly arranged apartment contrasts with the apparent bustling, busy, urban life outside. She is elegantly clothed in a gold-and-white silk kimono with a woven bird pattern. Combination watercolor and woodcut, executed in a style reminiscent of Kawase Hasui. Deft execution, melancholy motif. Old masters' technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: 16:9 format of a delicate ink and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 37, Fun’ya no Asayasu, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "In the autumn fields / When the heedless wind blows by / Over the pure-white dew, / How the myriad unstrung gems / Are scattered everywhere around." This poem uses fairly common imagery: Glistening, refractive, rainbow-color-reflecting, opalescent, sparkling, jewel-like dewdrops densely covering the crumpled leaves of fall shine like pearls and gemstones. The image focuses on the sunshine on fallen leaves on the forest floor and their sparkly dewdrops. Some leaves are being whirled about by the wind, spraying their gemstone-like dewdrops through the air to create a glittering spectacle with a bokeh esthetic. The gust of wind is made visible by almost comic-like parallel lines and curls. Combination watercolor and woodcut, executed in a style reminiscent of Kawase Hasui. Deft execution, whimsical, peaceful, nature motif. Old masters' technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: 16:9 format of a painstakingly crafted, extremely detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and multilayered woodblock rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 35, Ki no Tsurayuki, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "The depths of the hearts / Of humankind cannot be known. / But in my birthplace / The plum blossoms smell the same / As in the years gone by." The image shows an unassuming-looking, older, contemporary Japanese man looking out of a train window, his head resting on his palm, and his elbow on the windowsill. He is contemplating the sunny, early spring landscape outside the train window. As if in a perfect snapshot, a single, magnificent plum tree in full bloom stands on a grassy meadow and can be seen right in the middle of the windowpane, with only the left side of the tree slightly obscured by the profile of the man looking out of the window. Combination watercolor and woodcut, executed in a style reminiscent of Kawase Hasui. Deft execution, introspective, peaceful, melancholy motif. The view out of the window is rendered in pastel spring colors, contrasting with the darker, shaded tones of the man inside the train window. Old masters' technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: 16:9 format of a painstakingly crafted, extremely detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and multilayered woodblock rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 34, Fujiwara no Okikaze, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "IWho is still alive / When I have grown so old / That I can call my friends? / Even Takasago's pines / No longer offer comfort." The image focueses on a single, ancient secred, venerable pine tree, with a split trunk and twisted limbs. The iconic pine tree stands before Takasago Shrine. The shrine can be made out behind the branches of the pine tree. The single, old pine tree symbolizes the loneliness of age. Combination lithograph and woodcut, executed in a styles reminiscent of Kawase Hasui. Deft execution, introspective, peaceful, melancholy nature motif rendered in dark colors. Old masters' technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: 16:9 format of a painstakingly crafted, extremely detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and multilayered woodblock rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 33, Ki no Tomonori, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "In these spring days / with the tranquil light encompassing / the four directions / why should the blossoms scatter / with uneasy hearts?" The image shows a line of Sakura cherry trees in two-point perspective leading from the left lower-hand corner of the image to the horizon and the last third of the image. The cherry trees are in full bloom, with rich, double blossoms in shades of pink to magenta, under a peaceful spring sun. The grassy meadow under the cherry trees is fresh and green. A Zephyr is blowing, tossing about fallen blossoms that whirl thorugh the air. The sweep of the wind is made visible by many parallel, elegantly curved woodcut lines. Combination lithograph and woodcut, executed in a styles reminiscent of Kawase Hasui. Deft execution, introspective, peaceful nature motif. The whirling blossoms add a melancholy note of transience to the spring tableau. Old masters' technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 32 - Harumichi no Tsuraki
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Prompt: 16:9 format of a painstakingly detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and multilayered woodblock rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 32, Harumichi no Tsuraki, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Ah, the weir / that the wind has flung / across the mountain stram / is the autumn foliage that cannot flow on, / even though it would." The image shows a silvery mountain creek cascading over rocks and pooling at the right-lower-hand corner of the image, where a pile of wet, bunched-up maple leaves turned soggy and brown lies on the creek, stlowing down the flow and damming up the waters. More red maple leaves are falling from the trees above, fluttering through the cold air. The sides of the small brook are iced over with thin shards of late-autumn ice. A pale, yellow sun catches in the reflections of the stream and the wet rocks. Lithograph and woodcut execution in styles reminiscent of Kawase Hasui. Deft execution, introspective nature motif. Old masters' technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 31 - Sakanoue no Korenori
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Prompt: 16:9 format of a painstakingly detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 31, Sakanoue no Korenori, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "At the break of day, / Just as though the morning moon / Lightened the dim scene, / Yoshino's village lay / In a haze of falling snow.on." The image shows a hazy moon shining on Yohino valley in a dim, slow, struggling winter dawn. Snow is slowly drifting through the sky, settling on the houses in Yoshino valley in the hazy light of a nearly transparent moon. It is still and cold, with the main colors being shades of gray, blue and white. Yellow light shines from the windows of the houses in the valley below. Highly detailed, intricate, mulitlayer lithograph and woodcut execution. Old masters' technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: 16:9 format of a painstakingly detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 30, Mibu no Tadamine, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "There is nothing so depressing / as the break of day / and leaving you after / having seen the heartless / morning moon." The image shows only part of the moon, a last quarter (or third-quarter) moon, which looks like a half-moon, in a ghostly bone-white in the sky at dawn. The horizon is turning pink and golden, whereas the sky above is still progressively darker blue. The horizon consists of a single, sinously curved mountain line, curved like the body of a woman lying on her side, but the landscape is still mostly pitch-black with shades of blue. The horizon and sky make up 90% of the image, whereas the mountain line and the landscape below accoutn fro only 10% of the image. Chilly ambiance, executed in the highly detailed, intricate, lithograph and watercolor wash technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 28 - Minamoto no Muneyuki Ason
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Prompt: 16:9 format of a delicate ink and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 28, Minamoto no Muneyuki Ason, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "In the mountain village, / it is in winter that my loneliness / increases most, / when I think how both have dried up, / the grasses and people's visits." The image shows a remote Japanese house of antiquity on a mountain slope. Snow drifts have piled up along the outer walls and on the roof of the house. A low-ranking official of the Heian Court is peering out of the window of his house. Snowflakes whirled about by a blizzard visualize the path of the icy winds blowing. The image is carefully executed as an imaginative linocut with hand coloring in watercolor. Shades of blue, white and gray predominate, with the only touch of color being the yellow light in the window and the figure of the Japanese court official in the window. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu No. 29 - Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
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AIVision
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5960 X 3352
(19.98 MP)
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Prompt: 16:9 format of a delicate ink and watercolor wash rendering on rough handmade paper of poem number 29, Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Must it be by chance, / if I am to pluck one, that I pluck it? - / white chrysanthemums / on which the first frost / lies bewilderingly." The image shows a close-up of a single, magnificent white chrysanthemum with dozens of petals. The first frost, a hoarforst, lies on the petals. Each petal is covered with dozens of tiny, crystalline frost grains. The golden sun is shining on the petals, causing each and every hoarfrost crystal to reflect rainbow colors, so that the entire chrysanthemum blossom shines and shimmers with rainbow light reflections. Breathtaking nature spectacle executed in the most painstaking linocut and watercolor wash technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: An old limerick :
A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I'm damned if I see how the helican!"
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