Brickman

  • Lot 130. ODE BY KIYOWARA NO FUKAI

    Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Evening scene. Pleasure boats on a broad river. ‘Twas a summer’s night, I scarcely thought / The evening hours had passed away / When dawn broke; long the moon I’d sought, / Nor knew where ‘mid the clouds…

    Lot 130. ODE BY KIYOWARA NO FUKAI
  • Lot 131. ODE BY BUNYA NO ASAYASU

    Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Women in a boat, gathering lotus leaves. Now dew-drops sparkling o’er the moor are seen, / The autumn gust sweeps howling by, / Scarce lurks an instant ‘mid the reeds I ween, / In timid show’r the dew drops…

    Lot 131. ODE BY BUNYA NO ASAYASU
  • Lot 132. ODE BY SANGI HITOSHI

    Image is an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) A nobleman attended by two servants walking along a path through fields enveloped in long clouds of fog. Like humble Asaju amid / The reeds of Ono’s moor hid / I would my passion were concealed / But by…

    Lot 132. ODE BY SANGI HITOSHI
  • Lot 133. ODE BY ONAKATOMI YOSHINOBU

    Image is an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) The poet sits on a hill overlooking a misty plain, while outside the Imperial gateway just below, warders are grouped about a fire. Th’ Mikaki-mori through the night / (And men the warder Yeji name) / The watch-fire’s blaze…

    Lot 133. ODE BY ONAKATOMI YOSHINOBU
  • Lot 134. ODE BY FUJIWARA NO YOSHITAKA

    Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) A great bath house by a lake where water birds are diving. Clouds of steam rise from the hot baths, and bathers are resting on the balcony. Ere I, O maid! had worshipped thee, / A drear, uncared-for life…

    Lot 134. ODE BY FUJIWARA NO YOSHITAKA
  • Lot 135. ODE BY FUJIWARA NO MICHINOBU

    Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Travellers being carried in kago down a hill in the foreground and along a road winding over a gray plain stretching away to the horizon where trees are silhouetted against the early morning light. Though I know full well…

    Lot 135. ODE BY FUJIWARA NO MICHINOBU
  • Lot 136. ODE BY SANJO NO IN

    Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Shinto ceremony in the Imperial palace in honor of the autumn full moon. Fain would I in this world so hard / No longer live, but still must stay: — / How wistfully my eyes regard / The midnight…

    Lot 136. ODE BY SANJO NO IN
  • Lot 137. ODE BY DAINAGON TSUNENOBU

    Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) An uphill road overlooking rice fields. Farmers are carrying baskets on a pole, and women filling water buckets in a brook by the roadside. Now twilight darkens, and the breeze / Rustles the homeside rice-fields ‘mong, / And murmuring…

    Lot 137. ODE BY DAINAGON TSUNENOBU
  • Lot 138. ODE BY GONCHUNAGON SADAIYE

    Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Salt makers at work on a sea beach; a great column of smoke streaming upward from the fire under the boiling pans in a straw hut; at the left men stacking bundles of faggots. On Mats’ho’s shore, our…

    Lot 138. ODE BY GONCHUNAGON SADAIYE
  • Lot 139. SUNSHU

    Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago ANDO HIROSHIGE (B. 1797, d. 1858) Fujikawa Watashi-bune no Zu. The ferry across the Fujikawa, province of Sunshu: Fuji san in the distance. [from] HONCHO MEISHO, “Famous Sights of the Main Island.” Three prints of this series, which apparently was begun before 1830 and continued…

    Lot 139. SUNSHU