Private Collection of Fine Japanese Prints
Private Collection of Fine Japanese Prints
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) POEM BY MINAMOTO NO MUNEYUKI ASON | EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
POEM BY MINAMOTO NO MUNEYUKI ASON
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, with published by Iseya Sanjiro (Eijudo), censor's seal kiwame, circa 1835-36
Horizontal oban:
23.9 x 35 cm, 9½ x 13⅞ in.
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S. Nagata, Hokusai Museum (Hokusai Bijutsukan): Tales (Monogatari-e), vol. 5, 2nd ed. (Tokyo, 1990), pl. 145
The Japan Ukiyo-e Academy, Hokusai serial catalogue, Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, 29 December-11 January, exhib. cat. (Matsumoto, 1992), pl. 90
Okayama Museum, Tokubetsu-ten Hiroshige to Hokusai Rokuju yoshu meishozu-e to Hyakunin isshu uba ge etoki (Sakai Collection), Okayama Museum, Okayama, 29 October - 23 November, exhib. cat. (Okayama, 1983), pl. 13
W. Crothers, T. Kobayashi and J. Berndt, Hokusai, NGV International, Melbourne, 21 July- 15 October 2017, exhib. cat. (Melbourne, 2017) p. 186
For another impression in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, see accession no. JP6