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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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Few figures in Japanese poetry are as widely remembered as Saigyō, the twelfth-century warrior who left his service to become a Buddhist monk and wander the country writing waka verse. This color woodcut, dated 1750 and cut by the engraver Matsushima Seikichi, depicts him as a religious figure, a choice that reflects how Edo-period printmakers drew on older literary and religious personalities. Saigyō's journeys and his poems about cherry blossoms and the moon made him a favorite subject for later artists, and the print shows how his image had become a recognizable type by the mid-eighteenth century.

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 scan7,800 × 5,486 px · prints to 26 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227826

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