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Poem by Jitô Tennô, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)


「百人一首うはかゑとき 特統天皇」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (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; 25.3 x 36.2 cm (9 15/16 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1151
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Morse, Hokusai: The One Hundred Poets (1989), #2; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 228, horizontal ôban #24.02
DescriptionNo. 2 in the series.

MFA impressions: 06.1151, *06.1152 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17656, 11.17657 (key block), 11.37193, 21.6716, 1989.672
Signed Saki no Hokusai Manji
前北斎卍
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem: Haru sugite/ natsu kinekerashi/ shirotae no/ koromo hosuchô/ Ama no kagu yama
持統天皇 春過て 夏きにけらし しろたへの 衣干てふ 天の香久山
Provenance1900, purchased by Denman Waldo Ross from Yamanaka & Co., New York; 1906 gift of Denman Waldo Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)