Ariwara no Narihira, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poems
Katsushika Hokusai
1825–1835
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; nagaban
- Dimensions
- 50.3 × 21.3 cm (19 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- woodblock print
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printasian artJapanese (culture or style)woodblock print
About
This image appears to relate to a scene described in the ninety-fourth poem in the One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets series by Privy Councilor Masatsune; it is not clear why the poem has been attributed to the much more famous Narihira: From Mount Yoshino Blows a chill autumnal wind, In the deepening night. Cold the ancient hamlet is; Sounds of beating cloth I hear. (Translated by Clay MacCauley)
