variation 17 (Gaaaah!) better stop they reckon picasso never finished one of his if the cuckoo does not sing if the cuckoo does not sing if the cuckkoo does not sing and it's not even a cuckoo it's a freakin kereru and I seen to many feathery details for the last three days cuckoo! cuckoo! I'm a tea pot! pour me! rant... rave... (sound fades)
great friend you have,yes Kanou,Eitoku(1543~1590)was one of Japanese great painter, he worked under two generals--Oda,Nobunaga(1534~1576) and Toyotomi,Hideyosi(1537~1598),and painted on their room walls of their castle, his all works are designated Japanese treasure,your bird photo--this series--are composed so likely of our old style,three haiku(senru) you presented were made in Edo era--about 1700 by the common people and 90% of them are right about their character and the way of goverment.Thanks Ian.
When I first did this I thought somehow it looked japanese but didn't know how. Someone recenly suggested it was like a screen from Momoyama period so I looked that up and the poems are on a wiki for that. Were there particular compositional structural forms in painting? I read that Eitoku he had a "formula" for doing whole rooms... that is not what I am setting out to do, yet.
Oh my,you have upped three famous haiku previously,sorry I haven't noticed them.Ian,where have you known these haiku? really a well informed person you are,--Btw,1.Oda Nobunaga,2.Toyotomi Hideyosi,3.Tokugawa,Ieyasu.Thanks.
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