diptych print
- Museum number
- 1910,0418,0.189
- Title
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Object: Harumichi no Tsuraki 春道列樹
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Series: Shiika shashin kyo 詩哥写真鏡 (True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poems)
- Description
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Colour woodblock print, diptych. Harumichi no Tsuraki gazing at a torrent, season appears to be summer, water.
- Production date
- 1833-1834 (.c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 50.30 centimetres
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Width: 23 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Clark 2017
Poet Harumichi no Tsuraki (died ad 920) pauses on a footbridge to study a fast-flowing mountain stream. This moment inspired a poem composed by him at year’s end and anthologized in Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems (Kokin waka shū, about ad 920): ‘Speaking of yesterday / we live today flowing on / like Tomorrow river, / and so the days and months pass / swiftly one into another’ (Kinō to ii / kyō to kurashite / Asukagawa / nagarete hayaki / tsuki hi nari keri) (trans. Alfred Haft). Hokusai offsets the melancholy of the verse by evoking the idyllic beauty of the classical past, with a view of the crystalline Tomorrow river (Asukagawa), a prosperous village and mountains rising – as if eternally – in the distance.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2017 Apr-Jul, London, BM, Japanese Galleries, 'Japan Prehistory to the Present'
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
- 1910
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1910,0418,0.189
