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- Museum number
- 1919,0715,0.5
- Title
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Object: Kiyowara no Fukayabu 清原深養父
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Series: Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki 百人一首姥がゑとき (One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets, Explained by the Nurse)
- Description
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Colour woodblock print. Poem by Kiyowara no Fukayabu, boats lit with lanterns on a summer night.
- Production date
- 1830s(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 26 centimetres
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Width: 37.70 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Clark 2017
Poem 36: Natsu no yo wa / mada yoi nagara / akenuru o / kumo no izuko ni / tsuki yadoruramu (The short summer nights: / while it seems yet early evening, / it has already dawned, but / where in the clouds, then, / does the moon lodge, I wonder? Trans. Joshua Mostow.) Summer nights in Edo were a time for boating on the Sumida river. The imposing roofed vessel (yagatabune) at left is the Kawa-ichimaru (Best-on-the-River). Frequently shown in prints, this was one of the Sumida river’s largest, most luxurious and most expensive rental pleasure barges. The two lanterns at the right end of the roof suggest that the craft may have been recently renovated. Towards the right, a party of commoners has hired a more modest type of yagatabune. Approaching them is one of the river’s many floating vendors, offering fresh watermelon, grilled fish and other foods. The pole-man, like the poet Fukayabu, appears to be searching the sky for the moon hidden behind clouds. The buildings lining the riverbank
might be shogunal boathouses in Honjo (east bank) or rice granaries at Kuramae (west bank).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2017 6 Oct - 19 Nov, Osaka, Abeno Harukas Art Museum
2022 16 Apr-12 Jun, Tokyo, Suntory Museum of Art, Hokusai from the British Museum
2023–2024 Oct-Jan, Santa Ana, CA, USA, Bowers Museum, Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1919,0715,0.5
