Poem by Bun'ya no Asayasu (Fumiya no Asayasu), from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

「百人一首うはか恵とき　文屋朝康」

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Iseya Sanjirō (Eijudō) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1835–36 (Tenpō 6–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ōban; 24.5 x 35.7 cm (9 5/8 x 14 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1284

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Morse, Hokusai: The One Hundred Poets (1989), #37; Ukiyo-e shūka 16 (1981), p. 228, horizontal ōban #24.21

DescriptionNo. 37 in the series.

MFA impressions: 06.1284, 11.17675, 11.41805, 21.6737, 34.308

Signed Saki no Hokusai Manji
前北斎卍

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

InscriptionsPoem: Shiratsuyu ni/ kaze no fukishiku/ aki no no wa/ tsuranuki tomenu/ tama zo chirikeru

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross