Project Overview
The Art of Hon’ami Kōetsu
Visitors can transcribe a seventeenth-century Japanese scroll, then create their own poems which are painted into it and ready to print from this Web site.
A special tool lets visitors transcribe the calligraphy of Hon’ami Kōetsu on a hand scroll from the collection. Visitors learn about the symbolism of the woodblock-printed mica designs and read the verses, and then they can create their own poems by selecting unique combinations of phrases from the Shinkokin wakashu anthology. The poems they compose are converted to calligraphy, embedded back into the scroll, and can then be printed out.