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Edo prints

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	Design:	Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
	Poem by:	Bunya Asayasu
	Series title:	One hundred poems as explained by the nurse
	Size:	25.1 x 36.8 cm (ōban)
	Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Originally published around 1832 by Nishimuraya Yohachi and Iseya Sanjirō. This is a later edition from newly cut blocks published in the mid-20^th century by Kyōto Hanga-in.

Artist’s signature in top right area of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
前	zen	before
北	hoku	north
斎	sai	room	Drawn by Manji,
卍	manji	ten thousand	formerly known as Hokusai

Red round censorship seal reading kiwame (‘approved’) and square Eijūdō seal of the original publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi in lower left of the print.

Series title in rectangular pink cartouche in top right of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
百	hyaku	hundred
人	jin	people
一	itsu	one
首	shu	counter for poems
う	u
ば	ba
が	ga
ゑ	e	picture
と	to		One hundred poems
き	ki		as explained by the nurse

Name of the poet in the last column of the square red cartouche in top right of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
文	fumi	letter
屋	ya	shop
朝	asa	morning
康	kō	peace	Funya Asayasu

Name of the publisher of this later edition in the right margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
京	kyō	the capital
都	to	city
版	han	printing block
画	ga	picture
院	in	institution	Kyōto Hanga-in

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References

• Morse, Peter (1989, p. 92). Hokusai: One Hundred Poets. New York: George Braziller.

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Provenance: Fuji Arts