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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849)
Travellers toiling up a hill on the shore of Tago bay; Fuji in the distance.
From where my home, — / My lonely home, — on Tago’s shore / Doth stand, the wandering eye may roam / O’er Fujiyama’s summit hoar / Whose lofty brow / Is whitened by new-fallen snow. 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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