A Breezy Day ca. 1770 Isoda Koryūsai Japanese 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 A Breezy Day 55168

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