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Melon Skin

Artwork · Takarai Kikaku · kakemono

A haiga by Takarai Kikaku (1661–1707), one of the disciples of Matsuo Bashō: the discarded melon skin he saw floating down a stream, immortalized in a poem and a slightly melancholy but comical image — “Melon skin — spider legs floating on the water”. 1 Mason 2005, p. 333, fig. 388. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.