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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, / Tho’ it should cost my life to me! 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.
Purchaser: Charles H. Chandler
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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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