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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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Here the subject is Saigyō (1118–1190), a warrior who became a Buddhist monk and one of Japan's most admired waka poets, shown in a color woodcut dated 1750. The print falls within the Edo period, when color woodblock printing flourished and images of famous poets and religious figures circulated widely. Matsushima Seikichi is credited as the engraver, a reminder that these prints depended on skilled carvers as well as designers. Saigyō's legend of renunciation and wandering made him a favorite subject for later artists, and his poems on nature and impermanence still shape how Japanese readers view the figure.

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 scan6,837 × 9,995 px · prints to 23 × 33 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227800

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