Brickman
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Lot 120. ODE BY SANJI TAKAMURA
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) A boat putting out to sea passes the rocks at Ise where women are diving for awabi shells. Ye fishermen, who range the sea / In many a barque, I pray ye tell / My fellow-villagers of me —…
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Lot 121. ODE BY SOJO HENJO
Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Two noble ladies in a sacred dance in a Shinto ceremony at Court. In fitful path across the sky, / By various winds of heaven forced, / Cloud-borne Otome glideth by — / Now hath the breeze its…
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Lot 122. ODE BY ARIWARA NO NARIHIRA
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Peasants crossing a bridge over the Tatsuta river in autumn when red autumn leaves tint the stream. O Tatsta ! when th’ autumnal flow / I watch of thy deep ruddy wave / E’en when the stern gods long…
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Lot 123. ODE BY FUJIWARA NO TOSHIYUKI
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Scene, a great junk sailing on Suminoe bay. Tho’ softly as the waves do break / On Suminoe’s shore I seek / To meet thee, love e’en in a dream, / To dead men’s curious eyes I seem. HYAKUNIN…
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Lot 124. ODE BY ISE
Image is an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) In a house where tilers are at work upon the roof, a woman and her daughter sit by an open window, the daughter watching the departure of a loved one. Scant are the joints of Ashi reed / That…
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Lot 125. ODE BY MOTOYOSHI SHINNO
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Two women gazing across Osaka bay. Behind them in the foreground a man is leading a laden carabao. Distracted by my misery / How utterly forlorn am I; / Oh ! that I might thee once more see, /…
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Lot 126. ODE BY KAN-KE (MICHIZANE)
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) His ox cart and servants waiting for him while he visits a temple on Mount Tamuke. This time, I ween, no need there be / A nusa I should take with me: / The nishki of the maple tree…
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Lot 127. ODE BY TEISHIN KO
Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) The monks at Ogurayama welcoming Prince Kane who visits the temple in autumn. How pleasant ’tis the tints to see / Of reddening leaves of momiji / That on Ogura’s summit grow ! / Ah ! did they…
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Lot 128. ODE BY MINAMOTO NO MUNEYUKI
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Woodsmen in winter warming their hands by a blazing I fire. The hamlet bosom’d ‘mid the hills / Aye lonely is; in winter time / Its solitude with mis’ry fills / My mind, for now the rig’rous clime /…
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Lot 129. ODE BY HARUMICHI NO TSURAKI
Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Sawyers at work upon a great log by a stream where a man is raking out maple leaves, and a woman is leading a boy across on a log bridge. The winds of autumn have amassed / Dried…
