National Treasures & Important Cultural Properties
of National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan

Roshû was a painter who is reported to have studied under Ogata Kôrin, and who painted highly decorative works using a Japanese painting technique unique to the Rin school called "tarashikomi" (blurring lines) freely. This picture depicts a scene from volume 9 of "Ise Monogatari (Ise Story)," where the party of Narihira reached the Uzu mountain in Suruga on the way to Edo; Narihira saw an ascetic he knew and asked the ascetic to bring a letter to his lover in Kyoto.