Word: hoitsu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painting water. "Korin waves" recur in a long screen of gray cranes by Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858). A copy of a Korin (now in the Freer Gallery), Kiitsu's frieze of birds, with their dipping beaks and stilted legs, is a distillation of variety in unity. Sakai Hoitsu's (1761-1828) screen of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets is virtually a compendium of Rimpa techniques and virtues: the sprightly drawing of flower and tendril; the formal presentation of each poet in a separate cartouche, as in a print. In his more realistic vein, as in a screen depicting Flowering...
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