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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI. Poem by Abe no Nakamaro, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
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Poem by Abe no Nakamaro, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Caption:
Poem by Abe no Nakamaro, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki). Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760-1849 Tokyo (Edo)). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 10 3/8 x 14 7/8 in. (26.4 x 37.8 cm). Date: 1760-1849.
Abe no Nakamaro (698-770) composed this poem in China, in his longing for home:
Amanohara
furisake mireba
Kasuga naru
Mikasa no yama ni
ideshi tsuki ka mo
It might be the moon that shone
above Mount Mikasa in Nara
that I see in this faraway land
when now I look
across the vast fields of the stars.
Technique/material:
Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Period:
Edo period (1615-1868)
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Image size:
4200 x 3339 px | 40.1 MB
Print size:
35.6 x 28.3 cm | 14.0 x 11.1 in (300 dpi)
