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How Amazing

How Amazing, Sakai Hōitsu, late 18th–early 19th century

Sakai Hōitsu 酒井抱一, portrait

Sakai Hōitsu 酒井抱一Japanese, 1761–1828

How Amazing

late 18th–early 19th century · Calligraphy, Paintings

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Minneapolis Institute of Art

Minneapolis, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 3 days ago
In this state since: Sep 25, 2026
Source: The museum

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About the painting

Sakai Hōitsu is celebrated today as a painter of colorful screens and scrolls, but he was also a haiku poet and calligrapher. On the highly decorated surface of a folding fan Hōitsu wrote a poem about the sound of cicadas in the evening. The continuous movement of his writing is visible in the more strongly brushed Chinese characters as well as the Japanese kana syllables (characters used as phonological units and without individual meaning).

すさまじき / 蝉の羽おとや / かけ行灯

How amazing, / The sound of cicada wings— / Hanging lamp

(Trans. Stephen Addiss)

Minneapolis Institute of Art

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Accession number: 2013.63.42

In the catalog

Paintings Ink Japanese painting Rinpa Japan

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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — public domain

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