Hokusai, Ono no Komachi
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Catalog ID
A2244
Artist
Hokusai
Title
Ono no Komachi
Medium
Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title
One Hundred Poems Explained by the Wet Nurse
Edition
First
Date
1834
Publisher
Eijudo
Reference No
Size
10 -1/4 " x 15 "
Condition
Fine; fading.
Price
Shipping (US)
45.00
Shipping (Non-US)
95.00
NOTES:
During his peak period of woodblock print publication in the 1830s, Hokusai produced two series of single-sheet prints dedicated to poets, True Mirrors of Poetry, a vertical series which included both Japanese and Chinese poets, and One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse, a horizontal series in which each sheet illustrated one of the poems in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Together with the slightly earlier series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, the One Hundred Poems series is considered to be the pinnacle of Hokusaiโs work as a woodblock print designer.
The One Hundred Poems series, which would have been Hokusaiโs most ambitious series of single-sheet prints, was interrupted by the Tenpรถ famine of the mid-1830s, and never completed. Only twenty-eight prints (twenty-seven in full color and one in only keyblock impression) are known to have survived.
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