Showing posts with label woodblock prints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woodblock prints. Show all posts

Monday, July 18, 2016

Another example of Jikuzo-shi tanka & Haiga with a Hokusai print


phallic tussle

flirtations       wet parasols      

Oiran vie  

Cherry trees

Yoshiwara . . . blossoms


A woodblock print by Hokusai

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

An aizurie version of Hokusai's woodblock print #16, Kajikazawa in Kai Province (Koshu Kajikazawa)

A haiku in Jikuzo shi form

blustery      gusts

precarious     swirling

the high ground

snow capped     surrounded      jutting

coarse jetty

(A woodblock print by Hokusai)





Saturday, July 20, 2013

A tanka for Hiroshige's Tale of Genji Print

A Contemporary Haiga


fickle Genji

screened      Lady Murasaki ?

emotions flicker

clouded composition      hoax ?

pretence of a three nite stay ?

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "53 Stations of the Tokiado #49".

A Contemporary Haiga for (Tsuchiyama no haru no ame/Spring Rain at Tsuchiyama)
A bridge fords a stream

Mirth !     tree lined civility

spittled raindrops scream


Monday, May 20, 2013

A Haiku (senryu) & Tanka for Hiroshige's "69 Stations of Kisokaido #37.

A Contemporary Haiku/Tanka for (Miyanokoshi Station/Miyanokoshi)
Genpei Shadows

Moonlit Heike Silhouettes

wait!     Yoshinaka?

Minamoto !      Taira !

Tales of Heian Fuyu