At the Tsutsui Well ca. 1781-1800 Chōbunsai Eishi Japanese The two left panels of this triptych depict the love of a young man and woman who were next-door neighbors and playmates during their childhood. The artist Eishi quotes their love poems from The Tales of Ise along the top of the composition. The man sent to his love:By the barrel-well'sbuilt-up crib I'd pull myselfmeasuring my height:I've grown to be a manthis long while we've been apart.The girl sent back:Since we vied for heightmy once childish hair has grownbeyond my shoulders: If it is not to be you,who then best should tie it upThe print cleverly combines this story of lovers whose bond was to endure throughout their lives with a story related earlier in The Tales of Ise about an unfortunate young man who, after a year, reminisces about his lost love. The poem he recites upon returning to the now-deserted residence of his beloved is quoted at the top of the sheet on the right side of the triptych:The moon: is it not. .the

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At the Tsutsui Well ca. 1781-1800 Chōbunsai Eishi Japanese The two left panels of this triptych depict the love of a young man and woman who were next-door neighbors and playmates during their childhood. The artist Eishi quotes their love poems from The Tales of Ise along the top of the composition. The man sent to his love:By the barrel-well'sbuilt-up crib I'd pull myselfmeasuring my height:I've grown to be a manthis long while we've been apart.The girl sent back:Since we vied for heightmy once childish hair has grownbeyond my shoulders: If it is not to be you,who then best should tie it upThe print cleverly combines this story of lovers whose bond was to endure throughout their lives with a story related earlier in The Tales of Ise about an unfortunate young man who, after a year, reminisces about his lost love. The poem he recites upon returning to the now-deserted residence of his beloved is quoted at the top of the sheet on the right side of the triptych:The moon: is it not. .the

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