A Breezy Day
Isoda Koryūsai Japanese
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The long hashira-e format is especially appropriate for prints about classical poetry for it recalls the shape of tanzaku, the slips of paper upon which poems were written. Koryūsai's print plays upon a poem by Bunya Yasuhide (act. 858–888):
In its wake wither the
autumn grasses and trees
truly the wind on the
mountain is to be deemed
a vandal storm.
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