Flowering Thorn (Buson)

 

Andrew Stasik

  1932 - PRESENT (biography)

1958  

color intaglio 

4 5/16 x 5 3/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

10 of 25  

pencil editioned in lower left; annotated on print folder: "Flowering Thorn / Flowering thorn - / how like the roads about the place / where I was born! / Buson" 

 

heavy, ivory Arches wove with partial watermark 

published 

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

20396 

$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 Buson (1716 - 1784) reads: 'Flowering Thorn -/ How like the roads about this place / where I was born!'