No. 49 of 108 · A Hundred Worlds
Eight Bridges
Pictures by Kamisaka Sekka
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Deep blue irises crowd the banks beneath a wooden plank bridge in Kamisaka Sekka's Eight Bridges, from his Flowers of a Hundred Worlds, printed in Kyoto in 1909-10. The scene comes from The Tales of Ise, written over a thousand years ago, and was famously painted on folding screens by Ogata Korin. For someone who loves flowers and quiet beauty.
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From Kamisaka Sekka's Flowers of a Hundred Worlds / Eight Bridges / Volume 1 · Kyoto, 1909-10 / Irises at the Eight Bridges, a scene from The Tales of Ise, written around the 900s and painted on famous screens by Ogata Korin.
