Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate brocade tapestry in rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 69, Nōin Hōshi, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "It's the autumn leaves / of the hills of Mimuro, / where the tempests blow, / that are the woven borcade floating / on the waters of Tatsuta River!" We see a whirl and dance of red maple leaves coming down from the mountain slopes and landing like a beautiful, woven, brocade carpet on the river. The surface of the lazily flowing, broad, straight river is almost entirely carpeted with maple leaves shimmering in all shades of red, scarlet and maroon, coming together in a textile-like cover. The sky is bright blue and clear, the mountain slope is covered with maple trees in festive, autumn colors. The image is rendered as an almost palpable textile with exceeding detail, making the river cover look like a precious brocade fabric. Personification of autumn. Clarity of rendering, masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut in rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 67, Suō no Naishi, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "If I lay my head / Upon his arm in the dark / Of a short spring night, / This innocent dream pillow / Will be the death of my good name." The image shows the close-up of a beautiful, young, contemporary Japanese worman's head lying cozily on a man's arm. Her eyes are closed, her expression is peaceful and relaxed. The close-up is so detailed that we see every hair on the man's muscular arm, and every detail of the woman's face. Her face is well-lit, whereas the background fades into the dark. 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. 66 - Saki no Daisōjō Gyōson
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Prompt: Fully wide 16:9 format of a painstakingly crafted, extremely detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph enhanced with ink highlights to provide depth. The image is rendered in magnificent colors on rough handmade paper and shows the visuals of poem number 66, Saki no Daisōjō Gyōson, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Let us think of each / other fondly, / O mountain cherries! / For, outside of your blossoms, / there's no one who knows my feelings." Atop a hill in a gently rolling spring landscape blooms a single, majestic, solitary mountain cherry tree, a yamazakura. The blossoms are pure white and as graceful as snowflakes. New, light green leaves peek forth between the white blossoms, enhancing the depth of the image. The rolling hills are covered with fresh grass, the sky is baby blue with puffy, white clouds. Skilled and masterful execution. Enchanting nature motif, with a hint of melancholy. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a Symbolistic pastel painting int he style of Odilon Redon in rich, luminous colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 68, Sanjō-in, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Though I do not want / To live on in this floating world, / If I remain here, / Let me remember only / This midnight and this moonrise." We see an older Japanese man from the side. He is floating, prostrate, in the midnight air, his eyes closed and his arms crossed peacefully on his chest. Below him, a yellow moon is rising, just peeking over the dark horizon. The colors of the image are luminous blues, whites, yellows, and, for the loose-fitting, simple clothes of the man, magenta and light blues. The highly symbolistic pastel painting shows the man and the moon in exquisite detail, whereas the background is smudged and executed many layers of rich oil pastels. Clarity of rendering, timeless, symbolical motif. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Fully wide 16:9 format of a painstakingly crafted, extremely detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and multilayered wet watercolor rendering in magnificent colors on rough handmade paper of poem number 65, Sagami, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Even when your hate / Makes me stain my sleeves with tears / In cold misery, / Worse than hate and misery / Is the loss of my good name." A visibly sad and distraught contemporary Japanese woman is kneeling on her bed, her hands on her knees. crying. Her apartment is sparsely furnished, except from four panels of Japanese paintings on the walls evoking the Heian period. Each panel shows part of a continuous motif of a sakura tree rendered in ink on a golden background. The woman, the bed and the apartment are rendered as a heavy impasto oil painting in various shades of white, gray, tan, and borwn, with the black and gold of the four panels providing a welcome contrast. Skilled and masterful execution juxtaposing the traditional feel of the four panels and the contemporary ambiance with the sorrowful Japanese woman. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Fully wide 16:9 format of a painstakingly crafted, extremely detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and multilayered wet watercolor rendering in magnificent colors on rough handmade paper of poem number 64, Gonchūnagon Sadayori,of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "In the early dawn / When the mists on Uji River /
Slowly lift and clear, / From the shallows to the deep, / The stakes of fishing nets appear.'" It is early morning in winter, and the whitish-gray mist lies over the still Uji River, gradually lifting to show a row of dark-gray wooden fishing stakes extending far out into the river. The horizon is the tender pink and yellow of a winter dawn, but the shadows are all shades of gray. Wet-on-wet watercolor, splash painting style, capturing a perfect still moment with aquarelle technique. Skilled and deft execution, peaceful nature motif. Superlative technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Fully wide 16:9 format of a painstakingly crafted, extremely detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and multilayered wet watercolor rendering in magnificent colors on rough handmade paper of poem number 63, Sakyō Daibu Michimasa, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Now, the only thing / I wish for is a way to say / to you directly / - not through another- / 'I will think of you no longer!'" The image shows the poet, Sakyō Daibu Michimasa, sitting alone and contemplating his ill-fated affair with a 15-year old High Priestess. The poet is sitting cross-legged on a simple tatami mat in a simple hut. Behind him, we see his thoughts in a double exposure: He is thinking about the young High Priestess, Princess Masako, standing regal in the Ise Shrine. The poet will never see her again, and was not even allowed to say good-bye. Finest linocut additionally colored with wet watercolor. Compelling double exposure, every detail of the tatami mat and the poets clothing finely worked with the linocutter's tool. The double exposure showing the scene with the High Priestess is executed in dark colors and in a bokeh esthetic. Deft execution, melancholy motif. Superlative technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Fully wide 16:9 format of a painstakingly crafted, extremely detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and multilayered wet watercolor rendering in magnificent colors on rough handmade paper of poem number 62, Sei Shōnagon, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "The rooster's crowing / In the middle of the night / Deceived the hearers; / But at Osaka's gateway / The guards are never fooled." The image shows a magnificant, colorful rooster with ruffled feathers and wings open wide crowing zestily. He is sitting atop a pile of hay outside a lowly shed at midnight, and is lit by the half-moon. The image of the rooster completely dominates the picture. Ever details of his colorful feathers and cock's comb can be made out. Finest linocut additionally colored with wet watercolor. Magnificent feathers, very detailed hay in the haystack, every detail of the planks of wood of the shed behind the haystack finely worked with the linocutter's tool. Dark sky with a pale moon. Deft execution, whimsical nature motif. Superlative technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
Prompt: Fully wide 16:9 format of a painstakingly crafted, extremely detailed, multilayer, delicate lithograph and multilayered wet watercolor rendering in magnificent colors on rough handmade paper of poem number 61, Isé no Tayū, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "The eight-petalled cherries / from the Nara capital / of the ancient past / today nine layers thick / have bloomed within your court!" The image shows a single, venerable, gnraled, beautiful "yae-zakura" cherry tree whose last, eight-petaled cherry blossoms are still clinging to the tree. The remaining blossoms have fallen to the ground in a shower of pink and white, covering the ground in a thick layer of perfect, fallen petals. The tree stands protected in the corner of a brickwork wall enclosing a palace courtyard, with the April morning sun shining on the tree and casting its shadow on the elaborate terra cotta brickwork of the cozy wall corner behind it. Rendered in highly detailed wet watercolor technique, additionally highlighted with ink. Magenta pink blossoms, deft execution, introspective, peaceful nature motif. Superlative technique reminiscent of John Singer Sargent. Expressionist and highly emotive ambiance. 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 60, Koshikibu no Naishi, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "By Ōe Mountain / The road to Ikuno / Is far away, / And neither have I beheld / Nor crossed its bridge of heaven." The image shows a mountain, snow-capped Ōe Mountain, in the distance. A winding road leads through rolling wheat fields from the viewer to the mountain. An elaborate wooden bridge in the style of a painted, wooden Japanese temple over a small stream can be made out on the road ahead, Rendered as a fine woodcut partly additionally complemented by wet watercolor exectued in a style reminiscent of the great Japanese woodcut artists. Deft execution, peaceful landscape 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 59, Akazome Emon, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Though I'd have preferred / to have gone offf to bed / without hesitating, / the night deepened and / I watched the moon till it set!" The image shows a contemporary, young Japanese woman in a silk kimono with an elaborate bird and floral pattern and sumptuois, rich colors sitting on a chic, Italian, anthracite-colored sofa in her very modern apartment with a gray-and-cream interior decoration color scheme. She is softly lit by a living room floor lamp, whereas the remainder of the apartment is shadowy and dark. The young woman is apparently waiting for her lover to come, and has already been sitting on her sofa for many hours. Behind her, in a window, we see a very small, pale crescent moon high in the dark night sky. The image is exudes a melancholy and timeless ambiance. The image is rendered as an illustration in the manner of a glossy architectural magazine photograph with a model, the young woman in the brightly colored silk kimono, contrasting sharply with the surrounding color scheme. Extreme clarity of rendering, contemporary, symbolical motif. Masterful 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 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.
Prompt: Full-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with rich colors, executed on glossy paper of a music composer sitting at a grand piano, playing. The composer has Marfan syndrome, which gives him a typical physical appearance: elongated arms and legs, long fingers, tall, slender, and a long, narrow face. He looks normal otherwise and is dressed in jeans and a shirt. The composer has his eyes closed and an intensely focused look on his face as his long fingers span the piano keys. The image is executed as a detailed linocut with a strong, rich, wet watercolor wash overlay. Extreme detail, clarity of rendering, timeless motif combined with a classical linocut esthetic and masterful technique. Exquisite rendering of a physical diversity that may look somewhat unsettling but does not affect the composer's talent.
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.
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.
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irene muehldorf
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