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Hokusai designed kacho (flower-and-bird) prints of extraordinary quality. His prints often display exceptional finesse in their block engraving and printing that reflects the technical improvements stimulated by the production of privately commissioned surimono in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. This print, an unusually beautiful impression of an elegant design, comes from a set from which six other designs are known. The wisteria hangs downward with subtly varied color, while the wagtail's tail points upward, framing a Chinese poem by Qian Qi (circa 722-780):
Stretching creepers emerge from cloudy trees,
Their dangling ropes cover the nesting crane.
(Translation of poem by Stephen D. Allee)
- Published References
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- Gian Carlo Calza. Hokusai. Exh. cat. London and New York. V.46.8.
- Ann Yonemura, Nagata Seiji, Kobayashi Tadashi, Asano Shugo, Timothy Clark, Naito Masatoshi. Hokusai: Volume Two. Exh. cat. Washington, 2006. cat. 115, p. 86.
- Ann Yonemura. Hokusai: Volume One. Exh. cat. Washington, 2006. cat. 91, p. 134.
- Ann Yonemura, et al. Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne van Biema Collection. Seattle and Washington. cat. 130, pp. 314-315.
- Collection Area(s)
- Japanese Art
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