HOKUSAI: nagaban tate-e (52.2 x 23.2cm.); Abe no Nakamaro, the poet Abe no Nakamaro, on a balcony with guests and an attendant, contemplating the moon on the eve of his departure from China for Japan, from the series Shika shashinkyo "A mirror of Chinese and Japanese verse", signed Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu and published by Moriya Jihei, censor's seal kiwame--very good impression, slightly faded, two horizontal folds, worming, some restored, especially toward top