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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849)
The monks at Ogurayama welcoming Prince Kane who visits the temple in autumn.
How pleasant ’tis the tints to see / Of reddening leaves of momiji / That on Ogura’s summit grow ! / Ah ! did they but their beauty know / They’d linger till there pass’d again / Our Emperor’s miyuki train. 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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