Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art
Mountain Village in winter
From the series "Poems by One Hundred Poets as Explained by a Wet Nurse" (Hyakunin Isshu uba ga etoki)
Serial: P-U 264
Artist name: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Category: Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints
yamasato wa
fuyu zo sabishisa
Signature: zen Hokusai manji
Publisher: Ise Sanjudo
Oban, woodblock colour print
1835-1836 (first edition)
23.6 x 35.3 cm
The series was intended to comprise 100 prints. The artist only completed 27.
Illustration for a poem by Minamoto no Muneyuki Ason (d. 940)
masarikeru
hitomemo kusa mo
karenu to omoeba
Winter deepens
iIsolation
in the mountain village.
The people are gone and weeds
wither my thoughts.