Katsushika Hokusai
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Lot 116. ODE BY SARUMARU TAYU
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Women passing through the mountains in autumn pause to listen to the cry of a stag. Now ‘mid the hills the momiji / Is trampled down ‘neath hoof of deer, / Whose plaintive cries continually / Are heard both…
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Lot 117. ODE BY CHUN AGON YAKAMOCHI
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Men on a junk watch the flight of magpies at nightfall. If the “Magpie Bridge”— / Bridge by flight of magpies spanned — / White with frost I see: — / With a deep laid frost, made white: —…
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Lot 118. ODE BY ABE NO NAKAMARO
Image is an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) The poet in China being starved by Imperial command wrote the poem in blood on his sleeve. I search high heaven / And now above Mikasa / In the land of Kasuga / I know the moon is shining,…
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Lot 119. ODE BY ONO NO KOMACHI
Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Peasants outside a farm house engaged in the ordinary drudgery of life. Thy love hath passed away from me / Left desolate, forlorn — / In winter rains how wearily / The summer past I mourn! HYAKUNIN ISSHU…
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Lot 120. ODE BY SANJI TAKAMURA
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) A boat putting out to sea passes the rocks at Ise where women are diving for awabi shells. Ye fishermen, who range the sea / In many a barque, I pray ye tell / My fellow-villagers of me —…
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Lot 121. ODE BY SOJO HENJO
Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Two noble ladies in a sacred dance in a Shinto ceremony at Court. In fitful path across the sky, / By various winds of heaven forced, / Cloud-borne Otome glideth by — / Now hath the breeze its…
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Lot 122. ODE BY ARIWARA NO NARIHIRA
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Peasants crossing a bridge over the Tatsuta river in autumn when red autumn leaves tint the stream. O Tatsta ! when th’ autumnal flow / I watch of thy deep ruddy wave / E’en when the stern gods long…
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Lot 123. ODE BY FUJIWARA NO TOSHIYUKI
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Scene, a great junk sailing on Suminoe bay. Tho’ softly as the waves do break / On Suminoe’s shore I seek / To meet thee, love e’en in a dream, / To dead men’s curious eyes I seem. HYAKUNIN…
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Lot 124. ODE BY ISE
Image is an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 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…
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Lot 125. ODE BY MOTOYOSHI SHINNO
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago 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, /…
