Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Poem by Yamabe no Akahito, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)


「百人一首宇波か恵とき 山辺の赤人」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Iseya Sanjirô (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1835–36 (Tenpô 6–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.7 x 37.4 cm (10 1/8 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Katharine Lane Weems
Accession Number1989.669
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Morse, Hokusai: The One Hundred Poets (1989), #4; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 228, horizontal ôban #24.04
DescriptionNo. 4 in the series.

MFA impressions: 11.17667, 11.30180, 21.6719, 21.6720, 34.307, 1989.669, 1989.670
Signed Saki no Hokusai Manji
前北斎卍
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem: Tago no ura ni/ uchiidete mireba/ shirotae no/ Fuji no takane ni/ yuki wa furitsutsu
山辺赤人 田子の浦に うち出でてみれば 白妙の 富士の高根に 雪は降つつ
Provenance1989, bequest of Katharine Lane Weems (1899-1989) to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 20, 1989)