Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu (Ogura Imitation of the Hundred Poets)

Description

Colour woodblock print, from the series Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu (Ogura Imitation of the Hundred Poets, One Poem Each), depicting Yaoya O-shichi throwing a ball of paper over a low screen, where a sword and fan indicate that a man sleeping, with poem by Kentoku-ko (Fujiwara no Koretada): Japan, Utagawa Hiroshige, 1845

Museum reference

A.1887.745.69.16

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Woodblock print

Production information

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797 - 1858, Artist
Japan, East Asia
Ibaya Senzaburō, 1815 - 1869 (fl.), Publisher

Date

1845

Materials

Paper