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c. 1867

Mount Fuji with Dragon

Kishi Chikudō

Japanese, 1826 - 1897

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Known as the patron saint of the arts during her lifetime, the poetess and calligrapher Otagaki Rengetsu titled this thirty-one syllable poem “Yoeru Yama no Iwaie” (“Celebrating the Mountain”). Dragons frequently appear in depictions of Mount Fuji as a symbol of felicity and as a reference to the deity that legend says resides in the mountain.

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