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Poem by Renshi, from the series Furyu Goshiki-zumi (Fashionable "Ink in Five Colors")
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Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)
Poem by Renshi, from the series Furyu Goshiki-zumi (Fashionable "Ink in Five Colors")
Color woodcut: beauty smoking on a veranda next to a black cat contemplating morning glories on a trellis, a tie-dyed hand towel drying on a stand to her left, an allusive picture to the poem beginning with the words asagao ya (morning glories) above referring to the poem by Renshi (Matsuki Keirin; 1684-1742), one of the five haikai poems in the collection Goshiki-zumi (Ink in Five Colors) composed by followers of Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), signed Harunobu ga--good impression, slightly faded, minor worming, laid down on mat
chuban tate-e: 11 x 8¼in. (27.9 x 21cm.)
Poem by Renshi, from the series Furyu Goshiki-zumi (Fashionable "Ink in Five Colors")
Color woodcut: beauty smoking on a veranda next to a black cat contemplating morning glories on a trellis, a tie-dyed hand towel drying on a stand to her left, an allusive picture to the poem beginning with the words asagao ya (morning glories) above referring to the poem by Renshi (Matsuki Keirin; 1684-1742), one of the five haikai poems in the collection Goshiki-zumi (Ink in Five Colors) composed by followers of Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), signed Harunobu ga--good impression, slightly faded, minor worming, laid down on mat
chuban tate-e: 11 x 8¼in. (27.9 x 21cm.)