Excerpts from The Tale of Genji
601
30.0cm x 54.0cm
ono no ozū (ono no tsū) (1567 – 1631)
Discover Ono no Ozū (Ono no Tsū), a Japanese noblewoman renowned for her calligraphy, poetry, painting, and music. Explore her artistic legacy in Kyoto.
Calligraphy in the distinctive style of Ono no Otsū, one of the most prominent woman calligraphers of premodern Japan, graces sheets of decorated paper in this pair of albums with scenes from The Tale of Genji painted by an anonymous Tosa-school artist. Otsū wrote mostly in kana, interspersed with flamboyantly rendered kanji for poetically evocative words. The sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic variations in the weight of the brushstrokes and the radical spacing between characters and clusters of characters are trademarks of her style. Otsū also demonstrated her mastery of the “scattered writing” technique, whereby she artfully disposed the registers of the poem across the page and sometimes positioned lines of the poem out of sequence.
O ovom umetničkom delu
- Naslov: Excerpts from The Tale of Genji
- Umetnik: ono no ozū (ono no tsū)
- Godina: 601
- Prvobitne dimenzije: 30.0cm x 54.0cm
- Format: Portrait
- Status autorskih prava: Javno vlasništvo
- Boja (ton): Green Spectrum
- Percepcija svetline: bright