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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
POEM BY SANJO-IN
woodblock print, from the series The Hundred Poems [By the Hundred Poets] as Told by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), signed saki no Hokusai manji, no publisher's seal, published by Iseya Sanjiro, circa 1835-36
Horizontal oban:
25.2 x 37 cm, 10 x 14⅝ in.
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Hokusai, National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, 21 July - 15 October 2017
S. Nagata, Hokusai Museum (Hokusai Bijutsukan): Tales (Monogatari-e), vol. 5, 2nd ed. (Tokyo, 1990), pl. 153
W. Crothers, T. Kobayashi and J. Berndt, Hokusai, NGV International, Melbourne, 21 July- 15 October 2017, exhib. cat. (Melbourne, 2017) p. 194
For another impression in the collection of the British Museum, see accession no. 1906,1220,0.582