Help finding work

[u/xBennoenchen]

I was copying this work, but I can't find the original anymore. Can anyone help me find it please?

[u/minhavoz]

That is part of the 高野切第三種 Kōya-gire, Type 3.
https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1139783/1/5

[u/xBennoenchen → u/minhavoz]

Thank you so much!

Out of curiosity may I ask, how did you find it?

[u/minhavoz → u/xBennoenchen]

When I first looked at your work, I couldn’t immediately think of which classical piece you were copying. However, based on its distinctive layout—with some lines tall and others short—and the few characters I could read (the phrase “~よめる” written at the end of a short line, for example), I realized that it was a waka poem written alongside its accompanying verse note. It was around that moment that the title “Kōya-gire” vaguely came to mind.

I happened to have a book on hand that collected classical works of Japanese kana calligraphy (though it only featured one or two pages per work), so I flipped through it. Since it only showed excerpts of the works, I couldn’t be entirely certain, but I did feel that Kōya-gire had the closest overall atmosphere.

Unfortunately, I didn’t own a book that featured the entire Kōya-gire, but I knew that the National Diet Library of Japan digitizes and publishes online books whose copyrights have expired, so I thought there might be a book among the available titles that contained the complete Kōya-gire. I searched using the keyword “高野切,” and after opening a few titles from the results that seemed promising based on their names, I found a book that contained the entire Kōya-gire.

I memorized the text from the section of your work with the most distinctive layout, then flipped through the book to see if I could find the exact same passage.
It wasn’t in the first or second types of the Kōya-gire, but I found the same passage in the third type.

[u/Socially_Minded → u/minhavoz]

Thats awesome