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Hokusai, One hundred poets / Peter Morse.
Fine Arts Library NE1325.K3 M6 1989
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morse, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849--Criticism and interpretation.
- Katsushika, Hokusai.
- Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849.
- Ogura hyakunin isshu--Illustrations.
- Ogura hyakunin isshu.
- Color prints, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868.
- Color prints, Japanese.
- Color prints, Japanese--Edo period.
- Artists' preparatory studies--Japan.
- Artists' preparatory studies.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Japan.
- Penn Provenance:
- Luber, Gilbert, -1999 (bookplate) (former owner)
- Luber, Shirley (bookplate) (former owner)
- Shofuso Japanese House and Garden (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 36 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- One hundred poets.
- 100 poets.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : G. Braziller, 1989.
- Summary:
- This lavishly illustrated, oversized (17" x 10") book brings together the last major print series of the celebrated Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849) and the Japanese poetry that inspired these beautiful prints. Whether showing semi-nude women abalone divers struggling with their catch while a male crew of shriveled old salts leers from a nearby boat, or the carefree rapture of a leisurely group of men and women observing cherry blossoms at their peak, Hokusai captures, with drama and delicacy, sublime and ridiculous states. The artist's simplicity, though deceptive, is also remarkable: he illustrates a poem about a lovers' seaside tryst with a magnificently imposing yet unadorned sailing vessel, its small window offering a coy glimpse of the fortunate couple inside. Each of the 111 color prints (as well as 41 black-and-white sketches of projected prints apparently never completed) is accompanied by the poem, in Japanese and English, a biographical note on the poet and by Peter Morse's comments on literary and artistic intention and execution.
- Notes:
- Includes the Japanese text of Ogura hyakunin isshu with English translations by Clay MacCauley and 89 plates of Hokusai's prints and drawings inspired by the poems.
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contains:
- Ogura hyakunin isshu. English & Japanese. 1989.
- ISBN:
- 0807612138
- OCLC:
- 18382078
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