Hokusai One Hundred Poets

222 pp. With 41 colour plates and 70 black and white illustrations. The 'One Hundred Poets' is a body of literature that has been an integral part of Japanese art and culture since the mid-13th century. All 89 of the extant images for this series are here reproduced for the first time. Exquisite work printed on an attractively heavy off-white stock. 0807612138

From Publisher:

This lavishly illustrated, oversized (17" x 10") book brings together the last major print series of the celebrated Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849) and the Japanese poetry that inspired these beautiful prints. Whether showing semi-nude women abalone divers struggling with their catch while a male crew of shriveled old salts leers from a nearby boat, or the carefree rapture of a leisurely group of men and women observing cherry blossoms at their peak, Hokusai captures, with drama and delicacy, sublime and ridiculous states. The artist's simplicity, though deceptive, is also remarkable: he illustrates a poem about a lovers' seaside tryst with a magnificently imposing yet unadorned sailing vessel, its small window offering a coy glimpse of the fortunate couple inside. Each of the 111 color prints (as well as 41 black-and-white sketches of projected prints apparently never completed) is accompanied by the poem, in Japanese and English, a biographical note on the poet and by Peter Morse's comments on literary and artistic intention and execution.

Product Info

ISBN: 0807612138

ISBN-13: 9780807612132

Publisher: George Braziller 1989

Year: 1989

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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