Manuscript Version of the "Travel" Section of the Linked Verse (Renga) Collection "Aged Leaves" (Wakuraba), compiled by Sogi (1421-1502). Artist: Calligraphy by Ryuko (Japanese, active 16th century). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Overall: 9 1/16 in. × 10 ft. 15/16 in. (23 × 307.2 cm). Date: 1533.This scroll of elegant but forceful calligraphy comprises the "Travel" (Tabi) section of the "Aged Leaves" (Wakuraba) poetry anthology, compiled by the great medieval poetry master Sogi (1421-1502). The type of verse transcribed here is a special kind of linked verse (renga), in which the first three lines of the verse is composed by one poet, and the final two lines by another poet. During an age when printing was still rare, students of poetry had to make their own transcriptions of anthologies for study. Little is known about the calligrapher here, who signed himself Ryuko, except that he was a renga poet of the Warring States period, who was active in Yamashiro in Kyoto and also the Mizokui