Item #40173 OPENING 6: Furu-ike ya: kawazu tobi-komu: mizu-no-oto by Dom Sylvester Houédard (Woodchester, Glos: Openings Press, 1965).
OPENING 6: Furu-ike ya: kawazu tobi-komu: mizu-no-oto by Dom Sylvester Houédard (Woodchester, Glos: Openings Press, 1965).

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OPENING 6: Furu-ike ya: kawazu tobi-komu: mizu-no-oto by Dom Sylvester Houédard (Woodchester, Glos: Openings Press, 1965).

Broadside 37x12cm. folded to 12x12cm. + separate origami piece.

Houédard’s celebrated translation from the Japanese haiku of Matsuo Basho, presented in the form of an opening poem following an origami unfolding principle (also known as ‘Old pond ya : a frog jumps in : water sound’).

Near Fine. Printed at the Shenval Press in an edition of 500 numbered copies.

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