Item Info

Media Type: Woodcuts
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

"It is evening in Edo, and pleasure boats are out on the Sumida River near the Ryogoku bridge. In the largest boat a gathering is being entertained, while alongside, in a boat belonging to the Minatoya restuarant - which, presumably, is providing the catering - a cook attends to his fire and an assistant rinses out abowl in the river. In the other pleasure boat a smaller group of people can be seen enjoying a meal.

The Poem by the early tenth-century writer Kiyowara Fukayabu that is illustrated here reads: 

Natsu no yo mada yoi nagara

akenuru wo

kumo wo izuko ni tsuki yadoruran

'In the summer night,

While the evening still seems here,

Lo! the dawn has come.

In what region of the clouds

Has the wandering moon found place?'"

from, "Hokusai: Prints and Drawings" by Matthi Forrer. New York. Rizzoli, 1988. print 81

Notes:

Reproduction

Bibliography:

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/poem-by-kiyowara-no-fukayabu-from-the-series-one-hundred-poems-explained-by-the-nurse-hyakunin-isshu-uba-ga-etoki-234399

https://catalog.freelibrary.org/Record/2030739

https://www.hokusai-katsushika.org/100-poets-explained-by-the-nu100.html

Creator Name: Hokusai, Katsushika, 1760-1849 - Artist