百人一首 宇波かゑとき 安部仲麿|Poem by Abe no Nakamaro, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Katsushika Hokusai
1760–1849 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Asian Art
Abe no Nakamaro (698–770) composed this poem in China, in his longing for home: Amanohara furisake mireba Kasuga naru Mikasa no yama ni ideshi tsuki ka mo It might be the moon that shone above Mount Mikasa in Nara that I see in this faraway land when now I look across the vast fields of the stars.
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Date
- 1760–1849
- 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
