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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849)
People fording a stream, two of them bowing low to each other: women carrying freshly washed cloth to drying racks in the distance.
The pleasant spring hath passed away / Now summer follows close, I ween, / And Ama’s sacred summit may / In all its grandeur now be seen; / Of yore the drying ground / Whitened with angels’ robes spread far around. HYAKUNIN ISSHU URAGAWA ETORI The Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse. [From a] complete set of the twenty-seven prints of this series, being all that were published, though Hokusai drew designs for the others. The meaning of many of these ancient poems, which are written in the old Yamato language and contain allusions to things not now recognizable, is obscure, and numerous commentaries upon them have been written. For two of the metrical versions here given the compiler of this catalogue is indebted to Mr. Will H. Edmunds; the others are by Mr. F. V. Dickens.Yoko-e. Signed: Zen Hokusai Manji.
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Literature
Morse, Peter, Hokusai Katsushika, and 北斎(1760-1849) 葛飾. 1989. Hokusai, One Hundred Poets. . Translated by Clay MacCauley. New York: G. Braziller.
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