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Chunagon Yakamochi 中納言家持 / 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)

  • Object type

  • Museum number

    1906,1220,0.573

  • Title (object)

    • Chunagon Yakamochi 中納言家持

    Title (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

    Colour woodblock print. Poem by Chunagon Yakamochi, with the Kasasagi Bridge of the poem, and three magpies between junks.

  • Producer name

  • Culture/period

  • Date

    • 1830s(late) (?)

  • Production place

  • Materials

  • Technique

  • Inscriptions

      • Inscription Type

        inscription

      • Inscription Transliteration

        Hyakunin Isshu Uba ga Etoki

      • Inscription Comment

        series title

      • Inscription Type

        signature

      • Inscription Content

        前北斎卍

      • Inscription Transliteration

        Saki no Hokusai Manji

      • Inscription Translation

        By Manji, the former Hokusai

      • Inscription Type

        mark

      • Inscription Comment

        seal(publisher's.Eijudo)

  • Bibliography

    • Binyon 1916 190 bibliographic details
    • Keyes & Morse 2015 656 bibliographic details

  • Location

    Not on display

  • Subjects

  • Associated names

  • Acquisition name

  • Acquisition date

    1906

  • Department

    Asia

  • Registration number

    1906,1220,0.573

  • Additional IDs

    • B190
Woodblock print.Classical literature. Rural landscape. Poem by Chunagon Yakamochi, with the Kasasagi Bridge of the poem, and three magpies between junks. Nishiki-e on paper.

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Woodblock print.Classical literature. Rural landscape. Poem by Chunagon Yakamochi, with the Kasasagi Bridge of the poem, and three magpies between junks. Nishiki-e on paper.

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