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Edo prints

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	Design:	Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
	Poem by:	Ariwara Narihira
	Series title:	One hundred poems as explained by the nurse
	Size:	23.8 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 1835 by Nishimuraya Yohachi and Iseya Sanjirō. This is a later edition from newly cut blocks published in the 1950s by Ōedo Mokuhansha.

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 blue 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
乳	nyū	milk
母	haha	mother
か	ka
絵	e	picture	One hundred poems
説	to(ku)	explain	as explained by the nurse

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

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
在	a(ru)	be
原	hara	field
業	waza	art
平	hira	flat	Ariwara Narihira

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

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
大	ō	large
江	e	bay
戸	to	door
木	moku	wood
版	han	printing block
社	sha	company	Ōedo Mokuhansha

Followed by seals with surnames of carver Harada (原田) Kametarō (亀太郎) and printer Itakura (板倉) Hidetsugu (秀継):

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
彫	hori	carver	Carver:
原	hara	plain
田	ta	field	Harada
摺	suri	printer	Printer:
板	ita	board
倉	kura	storehouse	Itakura

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References

• Forrer, Matthi (1991). Hokusai, Prints and Drawings. Munich: Prestel Verlag and Royal Academy of Arts, London.

• Morse, Peter (1989, p. 54). Hokusai: One Hundred Poets. New York: George Braziller.

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Provenance: Fuji Arts