Fans and Stream - Sakai Hoitsu Art Print
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A gust crosses the bridge at Arashiyama. One courtier loses his grip. Sakai Hoitsu paints the second after, and this Fans and Stream art print holds it open. Japanese folding fans tumble down a field of gold toward water of azurite blue. Each is a small painting thrown away for the joy of watching it fall.
Read them as a calendar coming apart. A peony opens in oyster-shell white, pinned by vermilion ribs. Mount Fuji keeps its snowcap above a slope of malachite green. At the bank an iris has gone violet-blue and a branch of plum blossom is already going under. Ink-wash hills sit beside a cinnabar leaf banded with cloud and pine. A red-cheeked pheasant struts past camellias blotted onto leaves of pooled sumi, the wet-in-wet trick called tarashikomi. Four seasons, loose in one afternoon.
Hoitsu was born into the Sakai house, lords of Himeji Castle, then shaved his head and chose the brush. He painted these panels late in the Edo period, two centuries after Tawaraya Sotatsu sold painted fans from a Kyoto shop. Call it Edo Rinpa: the old capital's game replayed far east of that river. The stream curls gold eddies around every paper moon it swallows.
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