Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Chunagon Yakamochi [Otomo no Yakamochi (718-785)] (Chunagon Yakamochi), Edo (Japanese period)

Maker

Title

Chunagon Yakamochi [Otomo no Yakamochi (718-785)] (Chunagon Yakamochi)

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink and color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 24.3 x 36.4 cm (9 9/16 x 14 5/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription in red ink verso, bottom left: [Japanese Characters]; in a later hand verso, bottom center: EGR101[text and poems] Poem: Kasasagi no (translates to)When I see the bridge of magpies wataseru hashi ni (translates to)layered with frost oku shimo no/shiroki o mireba/yo zo fuke ni keru (translates to) I know that night has grown lateFor another translation see Morse, Hokusai: One Hundred Poets, no. 6; Mostow (see refs.) translates the poem: When I see the whiteness/of the frost that lies/on the bridge the magpies spread,/then I know, indeed,/that the night has deepened.

Signature: Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu | trimmed

Seals: Publisher's seal | Eijudo;censor's seal | kiwame

Identification

Edition

Edition: early edition with red publisher's seal; trimmed signature and trimmed into title cartouche; faded and rubbed

Place

Place Made: Japan

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

20.1227

Chunagon Yakamochi [Otomo no Yakamochi (718-785)] (Chunagon Yakamochi)
The hundred poems explained by the nurse
Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki

Edition: early edition with red publisher's seal; trimmed signature and trimmed into title cartouche; faded and rubbed

Inscription in red ink verso, bottom left: [Japanese Characters]; in a later hand verso, bottom center: EGR101[text and poems] Poem: Kasasagi no (translates to)When I see the bridge of magpies wataseru hashi ni (translates to)layered with frost oku shimo no/shiroki o mireba/yo zo fuke ni keru (translates to) I know that night has grown lateFor another translation see Morse, Hokusai: One Hundred Poets, no. 6; Mostow (see refs.) translates the poem: When I see the whiteness/of the frost that lies/on the bridge the magpies spread,/then I know, indeed,/that the night has deepened.

Signature: Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu | trimmed

Seals: Publisher's seal | Eijudo;censor's seal | kiwame

Place Made: Japan

Exhibition History

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