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Hokusai: One Hundred Poets

Hokusai: One Hundred Poets

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Hokusai: One Hundred Poets by Peter Morse 

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..

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Published: 1989
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Pages: 222
  • ISBN: 0807612138

Hardcover pre-owned book in very good condition, some shelf wear and tear on dust jacket corners/edges, slight scuffing on back of dust jacket (patch of discolouration) ; Protective sleeve applied to dust jacket. 

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