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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 grow Nanihagata nigh, / While time o’er e’en as brief space speed / Fail’st thou to greet my longing eye. / I fain would die! 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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