Private Collection of Fine Japanese Prints
Private Collection of Fine Japanese Prints
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) POEM BY SANGI NO TAKAMURA | EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
POEM BY SANGI NO TAKAMURA
woodblock print, from the series The Hundred Poems [By the Hundred Poets] as Told by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), signed saki no Hokusai manji, published by Iseya Sanjiro (Eijudo), censor's seal kiwame, circa 1835-36
Horizontal oban:
26 x 37.7 cm, 10¼ x 14⅞ in.
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S. Nagata, Hokusai Museum (Hokusai Bijutsukan): Tales (Monogatari-e), vol. 5, 2nd ed. (Tokyo, 1990), pl. 137
The Japan Ukiyo-e Academy, Hokusai serial catalogue, Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, 29 December-11 January, exhib. cat. (Matsumoto, 1992), pl. 82
W. Crothers, T. Kobayashi and J. Berndt, Hokusai, NGV International, Melbourne, 21 July- 15 October 2017, exhib. cat. (Melbourne, 2017) p. 176
For a similar impression in The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, see accession no. 1989.673