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| Artist: | Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849) — 葛飾北斎 |
| Title: | Fire in the Snow - repro |
| Series: | 100 Poems by 100 Poets Explained by the Nurse |
| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Eijudo |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Eijudo |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 33203 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
100 Poems Explained by the Wetnurse: Fire in the Snow
Artist: Hokusai
Format: Oban yoko-e: 10.25" x 15.25"
Subject: A snow scene. Hunters and foresters are warming their hands at a log-fire outside a mountain-hut. The flames throw the foreground figures and the snow-bound hut into bright relief against a dark sky. With a poem in the square cartouche: 'Friends are gone from me, the grass and leaves are withered, Ah! How remembrance makes winter-time more lonely here in this mountain hamlet'. The poet is Minamoto no Muneyuki.
Publisher: Eijudo (Orig.)
Date: Probably early 20th century
Condition: Fine colors. Full size with margins. Vertical album foldmark. Paper toned and brittle. Two repaired cracks to the left of the centrefold. Japanese album backing paper. Creases and flaws. Fair/poor state of preservation.
Impression: Fine impression of a facsmile edition.
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