Nature Note (Issa)

 

Andrew Stasik

  1932 - PRESENT (biography)

1958  

color intaglio 

3 1/4 x 3 11/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

10 of 25  

pencil editioned in lower left; annotated on print folder: "Nature Note / A bush warbler comes: / all muddy are the feet he wipes / upon the blooming plums. / Issa" 

 

heavy, ivory Arches wove 

published 

Harold G. Henderson; reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Co., Inc. 

20395 

$175.00 

From the portfolio "Prints and Poems", nine intaglio prints by Andrew Stasik illustrating nine Haiku poems, translated by Harold G. Henderson. This poem by Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) reads: ' Nature Note / A bush warbler comes:/ all muddy are the feet that he wipes / upon the blooming plums. '