A Breezy Day, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1770, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 28 1/8 in. (

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A Breezy Day, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1770, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 28 1/8 in. ( cm); W. 5 in. ( cm), Prints, Isoda Koryūsai (Japanese, 1735–ca. 1790), 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

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