Poem by Dainagon Tanemasu, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse Yale University Art Gallery

18th–19th century

Asian Art

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Medium: Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: 8 5/8 × 13 7/8 in. (21.9 × 35.2 cm)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Accession Number: 1948.83
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Private Collection, New York; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1948

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Inscriptions

(trans. by Met.) Poem: Now twilight darkens and the breeze rustles in the/ homeside rice fields, and murmuring sounds please/ my ears as the autumn gusts sweep past my hut/\r\n thatched with ashi grass.

Signed

Saki no Hokusai Manji” (“Manji, formerly Hokusai”) 前北斎卍 (upper right)

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