Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Dainagon Tsunenobu [Minamoto no Tsunenobu (1016-1097)], Edo (Japanese period)

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Title

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

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink and color

Materials/Techniques

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.

Signature: Zen Hokusai manji | in black

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

Identification

Edition

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

Place

Place Made: Japan

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

20.1229

Dainagon Tsunenobu [Minamoto no Tsunenobu (1016-1097)]
The hundred poems explained by the nurse
Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki

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

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.

Signature: Zen Hokusai manji | in black

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

Place Made: Japan
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