百人一首　うはか縁説　清原深養父|Poem by Kiyohara no Fukayabu, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

Katsushika Hokusai

ca. 1835 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

This poem by the early tenth century poet Kiyohara no Fukayabu, originally appearing in the "Summer" section of the Kokin waka shū, laments the fleeting moon and is paired with Hokusai's imagined scene of a night's outing on a pleasure boat to escape the heat: Natsu no yo wa mada yohi nagara akenuru no kumo no izu ko ni tsuki ya doruran A summer's night in twilight still barely begun the moon must be somewhere awake, too, in amongst the clouds.

Artist

Katsushika Hokusai

Date

ca. 1835

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Henry L. Phillips Collection, Bequest of Henry L. Phillips, 1939