Ono no Komachi, from the series Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki (One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, Explained by the Nurse)

Ono no Komachi, from the series Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki (One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, Explained by the Nurse)

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)

publisher: Nishimura Yohachi (Japanese, active mid-19th century)

ca. 1835-1836

Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)

color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e

Morse 1989, 42-43.

image: 10 1/8 in x 14 3/4 in; sheet: 10 5/16 in x 14 15/16 in

inscription: 花の色ハ // うつりにけりな // いたつらに // ワか身 // よにふる // なかめせし // まに, printed in black ink within square cartouche on yellow-patterned ground, upper right Transliteration (Translation): hana no iro wa // utsurinikeri na // itazura ni // wa ga mi // yo ni furu // nagame seshi // ma ni (The color of the flowers has faded, indeed in vain have I passed through the world while gazing at the falling rains.) Language: Japanese Description: Poem by Ono no Komachi. Translation by Joshua S. Mostow.

title: 小墅小町, printed in black ink within square cartouche on yellow-patterned ground, upper right Transliteration: Ono no Komachi Language: Japanese

series title: 百人一首 / うはかゑとき, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche, upper right Transliteration (Translation): Hyakunin isshu / uba ga etoki (One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, Explained by the Nurse) Language: Japanese

annotation: 八四五九, red ink, verso upper right Translation: 8459 Language: Japanese

publisher's mark: 永壽堂, printed in red relief within square cartouche, center right Transliteration (Translation): Eijudō ([seal of the publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi 西村屋与八]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo publisher, firm Eijudō 永寿堂 active c.1751-1860.

censor's seal: 極, printed in red relief within circular cartouche, center right Transliteration (Translation): kiwame (approval) Language: Japanese

signature: 前北斎 卍, printed in black ink (zen Hokusai), stamped in red (Manji), upper right Transliteration (Translation): zen Hokusai Manji (Manji, formerly Hokusai) Language: Japanese

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