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Essays on Ease
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Essays on Ease

Totoya Hokkei · c. 1822 · color woodcut; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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A still life of a fish and an iris beside a porcelain bowl decorated with two Chinese boys (karako). Essays on Idleness (Tsurezuregusa) are loose notes and observations by the writer and poet Yoshida Kenkô, written around 1320. With one poem.

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Credit lineEssays over gemakzucht. c. 1822. Totoya Hokkei. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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