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[Japanese print], 1750 — historic print
[Japanese print], 1750. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Saigyō, the warrior who became a wandering Buddhist monk and poet, is the figure this woodcut honors. He lived from 1118 to 1190, and his waka poems about cherry blossoms, the moon, and solitary travel made him one of the most admired poets in Japanese literary tradition. Edo-period artists returned to his life again and again, portraying him as the ideal of a monk who had renounced the world. The record credits the color woodcut to the engraver Matsushima Seikichi and dates it to 1750, so it reflects how a figure from the twelfth century was pictured in eighteenth-century Japan.

Created / published1750
CreatorMatsushima Seikichi engraver.
Medium1 print : woodcut color.
NotesForms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).
SubjectsSaigyō 1118-1190--Religion--Japan. Priests--Japan--1800-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan6,314 × 4,678 px · prints to 21 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227807

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