Okuno Hosomichi Matsushima Sendai
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Description
Matsushima—the pine-covered islands of Miyagi Bay, counted among Japan's three most celebrated scenic landscapes—presented Saito with a subject already loaded with centuries of artistic precedent. Basho famously wrote of Matsushima that its beauty left him speechless; Saito's response was characteristically visual, reducing the famous pine-crowned islands to geometric masses, the water a flat ground, the composition achieving a simplified clarity that the exhausted subject rarely received.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Okuno Hosomichi Matsushima Sendai was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Okuno Hosomichi Matsushima Sendai depicts landscapes, seascapes, and trees, set at Matsushima.