Katsushika Hokusai
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Lot 126. ODE BY KAN-KE (MICHIZANE)
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) His ox cart and servants waiting for him while he visits a temple on Mount Tamuke. This time, I ween, no need there be / A nusa I should take with me: / The nishki of the maple tree…
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Lot 127. ODE BY TEISHIN KO
Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston 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…
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Lot 128. ODE BY MINAMOTO NO MUNEYUKI
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Woodsmen in winter warming their hands by a blazing I fire. The hamlet bosom’d ‘mid the hills / Aye lonely is; in winter time / Its solitude with mis’ry fills / My mind, for now the rig’rous clime /…
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Lot 129. ODE BY HARUMICHI NO TSURAKI
Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Sawyers at work upon a great log by a stream where a man is raking out maple leaves, and a woman is leading a boy across on a log bridge. The winds of autumn have amassed / Dried…
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Lot 130. ODE BY KIYOWARA NO FUKAI
Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Evening scene. Pleasure boats on a broad river. ‘Twas a summer’s night, I scarcely thought / The evening hours had passed away / When dawn broke; long the moon I’d sought, / Nor knew where ‘mid the clouds…
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Lot 131. ODE BY BUNYA NO ASAYASU
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Women in a boat, gathering lotus leaves. Now dew-drops sparkling o’er the moor are seen, / The autumn gust sweeps howling by, / Scarce lurks an instant ‘mid the reeds I ween, / In timid show’r the dew drops…
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Lot 132. ODE BY SANGI HITOSHI
Image is an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) A nobleman attended by two servants walking along a path through fields enveloped in long clouds of fog. Like humble Asaju amid / The reeds of Ono’s moor hid / I would my passion were concealed / But by…
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Lot 133. ODE BY ONAKATOMI YOSHINOBU
Image is an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) The poet sits on a hill overlooking a misty plain, while outside the Imperial gateway just below, warders are grouped about a fire. Th’ Mikaki-mori through the night / (And men the warder Yeji name) / The watch-fire’s blaze…
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Lot 134. ODE BY FUJIWARA NO YOSHITAKA
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) A great bath house by a lake where water birds are diving. Clouds of steam rise from the hot baths, and bathers are resting on the balcony. Ere I, O maid! had worshipped thee, / A drear, uncared-for life…
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Lot 135. ODE BY FUJIWARA NO MICHINOBU
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Travellers being carried in kago down a hill in the foreground and along a road winding over a gray plain stretching away to the horizon where trees are silhouetted against the early morning light. Though I know full well…
