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Kisen Hōshi
Utagawa Hiroshige; Publisher: Fujiokaya HikotarōLinkedCulture matchlcp-f947f0c3b1d6
- Date
- 1830s
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 22614
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
For this autumnal scene Hiroshige was inspired by a poem by Kisen Ho_shi, a 9th century Buddhist priest who lived in the mountains near Uji, southeast of Kyoto. Hiroshige included the poem in the upper portion of the print: Lowly hut is mine southeast of the capital-- Thus I choose to dwell; And the world in which I live men have named a Mount of Gloom. The melancholy tone of the poem is echoed by Hiroshige's portrait of the poet shown here in a windswept landscape with maple leaves swirling about him. His attention appears to be taken with the sorrowful cry of a deer, shown here in the distance. Japan, Asia
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- Credit line
- Gift of Louis W. Hill, Jr.
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