A Teenage Boy and Girl with a Viewer for an Optique Picture (Nozoki-karakuri); Kōbō Daishis Poem on the Jewel River of Kōya (Kōya no Tamagawa: Kōbō Daishi) ca. 1788 Suzuki Harunobu Japanese An elegantly dressed teenage boy and girl have been viewing a special type of print designed to create a three-dimensional effect when seen through a viewer with a convex lens known as a nozoki-karakuri (peep box) or Oranda megane (Dutch glasses). The text in the square cartouche is a famous poem by the monk Kōbō Daishi (Kūkai, 774-835) about one of the Six Jewel Rivers, the one in Kii Province (now Wakayama prefecture). The print on the floor visualizes the poem: Wasurete mo kumi ya shitsuran tabibito no Takano no oku no Tamagawa no mizu .[Kii shū meisho Forgetting the tabooagainst drinking from it,pilgrims scoop waterfrom the Jewel River in the depths of Mount Kōya. [A famous site in Kii Province —Trans. John T. Carpenter. A Teenage Boy and Girl with a Viewer for an Optique Picture (Nozoki-kara

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A Teenage Boy and Girl with a Viewer for an Optique Picture (Nozoki-karakuri); Kōbō Daishis Poem on the Jewel River of Kōya (Kōya no Tamagawa: Kōbō Daishi) ca. 1788 Suzuki Harunobu Japanese An elegantly dressed teenage boy and girl have been viewing a special type of print designed to create a three-dimensional effect when seen through a viewer with a convex lens known as a nozoki-karakuri (peep box) or Oranda megane (Dutch glasses). The text in the square cartouche is a famous poem by the monk Kōbō Daishi (Kūkai, 774-835) about one of the Six Jewel Rivers, the one in Kii Province (now Wakayama prefecture). The print on the floor visualizes the poem: Wasurete mo kumi ya shitsuran tabibito no Takano no oku no Tamagawa no mizu .[Kii shū meisho Forgetting the tabooagainst drinking from it,pilgrims scoop waterfrom the Jewel River in the depths of Mount Kōya. [A famous site in Kii Province —Trans. John T. Carpenter. A Teenage Boy and Girl with a Viewer for an Optique Picture (Nozoki-kara

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