Lot 222
222
HOKUSAI: nagaban tate-e (55.6 x 23 cm.); the Chinese poet Li Po observing a waterfall, from the series Shika shashinkyo "A mirror of the imagery of Chinese and Japanese poets", signed Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu and published by Moriya Jihei- very good impression, good color, several minor restorations, good condition

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HOKUSAI: nagaban tate-e (55.6 x 23 cm.); the Chinese poet Li Po observing a waterfall, from the series Shika shashinkyo "A mirror of the imagery of Chinese and Japanese poets", signed Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu and published by Moriya Jihei- very good impression, good color, several minor restorations, good condition

Lot Essay

Here the poet is shown gazing at a waterfall attended by two young men holding their master, famous for his drunkeness, from the edge of the cliff. As Mr. Hillier notes in his entry for the print in the Vever Collection (Part I, no. 308), the setting is probably Lo-shan waterfall in Kiangsi province about which Li Po wrote, in part: 'Long I lift my gaze- Oh prodigious force!'