Essays on laziness Tsurezuregusa (title on object) A comparison of Japanese writings (series title) Washo kurabe (series title on object), A still life of a fish and an iris on a porcelain dish decorated with two chinese boys (karako). Essays about laziness (Tsurezuregusa) are loose notes and observations of the writer and poet Yoshida Kenk?, written around 1320. With one poem, fishes, Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1822, paper, colour woodcut, h 182 mm ⊙ w 173 mm.