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Katsushika Hokusai

Poem by Yamabe no Akahito, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)"

c. 1835/36
Color woodblock print; oban
37.1 × 25 cm (14.6 × 9.8 in)

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