Allusive Variation: Hiroshi Sugimoto's Hall of Thirty-Three Bays.

The article focuses on the photographs titled "Hall of Thirty-Three Bays," by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. The author examines the images in the context of traditional concepts related to this Japanese type of art. The photographs directly reference an essential as well as well-known traditional art which involves the application of the rhetorical technique that is commonly translated as allusive variation. According to him, such compositional practice is a significant device which is associated with Japanese poetry.