Poem by Minamoto no Muneyuki Ason, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki) ca. 1835 Katsushika Hokusai Japanese This print is from Hokusai's last important print series, left incomplete at his death. One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets is a famous anthology of classical waka a label at the upper right corner, a poem by Minamoto Muneyuki (d. 939) is inscribed: In a mountain hamlet winter's loneliness grows people and grasses are withered—so runs my contrast to the waka poem, which concentrates on the loneliness o
Poem by Minamoto no Muneyuki Ason, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki) ca. 1835 Katsushika Hokusai Japanese This print is from Hokusai's last important print series, left incomplete at his death. One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets is a famous anthology of classical waka a label at the upper right corner, a poem by Minamoto Muneyuki (d. 939) is inscribed: In a mountain hamlet winter's loneliness grows people and grasses are withered—so runs my contrast to the waka poem, which concentrates on the loneliness of winter in the mountains, Hokusai's hunters, clustered around a big fire in the snow, have a mad animation characteristic of kyōka, the playful verse more popular in the late Edo period than Poem by Minamoto no Muneyuki Ason, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki) 56979
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