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Katsushika Hokusai

Dainagon Tsunenobu [Minamoto no Tsunenobu (1016-1097)], ca. 1835-1836

Description

Maker

  • Nishimuraya Yohachi, Japanese, publisher
  • Katsushika Hokusai, 1760-1849, Japanese

Title

Dainagon Tsunenobu [Minamoto no Tsunenobu (1016-1097)]

Year

ca. 1835-1836

Medium

Polychrome wood block print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink and color

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Image: 25.1 x 36.4 cm (9 7/8 x 14 5/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Poem: Yu sareba (translates to) When it becomes dusk, kadota no inaba (translates to) the autumn wind blows against otozurete (translates to) the huts thatched with reeds ashi no maroya ni (translates to) and pays its respects to leaves akikaze zo fuku (translates to) of rice plants before the gate.(transl. Keene, Seeds in the heart, p. 311)Mostow (see refs.) provides another translation: As evening falls,/through the rice-plants before the gate,/it comes visiting, and rustling/on the reeds of the simple hut-/the autumn wind does blow!Mostow also adds the syllable "fu" to the first word as it was understood to have been read in the Edo period but which does not appear on the print transcription or in other replications.

Identification

Edition

Edition: early edition with red publisher's seal; faded

Place

Japan

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

20.1229

Use

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