Ariwara no Narihira, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poems

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Ariwara no Narihira, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poems

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎

Date
c. 1830
Medium
Color woodblock print; nagaban
Culture
Japan
Department
Arts of Asia
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

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)

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