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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Poem by Fujiwara no Yoshitaka

Closed22 September 2020

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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Poem by Fujiwara no Yoshitaka
Woodblock print, from the series Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki (One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse), signed saki no Hokusai manji, published by Iseya Sanjiro (Eijudo), circa 1835-36
Horizontal oban: 10 x 14 3/8 in. (25.3 x 36.5 cm.)

Werner Schindler (1905-1986)

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The poem reads:
Kimi ga tame Oshikarazarishi inochi sae nagaku mogana to omoinuru kana
Even the life that I’d not have been sorry to lose just to meet you once, now, having met, I think: "I want it to last forever!"