Kocho Chapter from The Tale of Genji - Tosa Mitsuyoshi Art Print

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Giclée Printing

Spring arrives by boat, wearing wings. In this Kocho chapter from The Tale of Genji, Tosa Mitsuyoshi paints the day Lady Murasaki answers a rival's autumn poem with costumed children.

Two have already landed on the gold-leaf bank. A girl in a moss-green robe hugs a silver vase of cherry blossoms, and feathered wings mark her as a kalavinka bird from the bugaku stage. Her partner plays the butterfly. She lifts a gold vase of yamabuki overhead, and a cinnabar-red train scrolls behind her across the sand.

Their boat idles in azurite-blue water with a red-wattled bird gripping the prow. An old drummer in black-and-gold lattice brocade raises his stick beside a drum ringed in verdigris green.

Murasaki Shikibu wrote this scene for the Heian court in the early 1000s. Mitsuyoshi repainted it six centuries later on a Momoyama-period folding screen, in ink and gold leaf on paper. This Japanese art print stops the Butterflies chapter one beat before the drum, with a whole season still held in two small vases.

Hang this Kocho art print and your wall gains a seat above Heian Japan. Winged page girls ferrying blossoms to Empress Akikonomu's sutra reading, and the clouds never close.

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