Tatohe uta, Analogy, Edo period (1615–1868), late 18th century, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 10 1/8 x 7 3/4 in. (25.7 x 19.7 cm), Prints, Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726–1792), The beauty of Shunshō's print gathers further elegance from two layers of poetic devices—a visual allustion to the imagery in a poem describing a love 'as infinite as the shells upon the shore' and the analogy itself, discussed at length in the preface to the Kokin waka shū
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