FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
This autumn landscape with rice farmers and travelers is from Katsushika Hokusai’s series of prints inspired by the anthology One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets ( Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki ). While traveling through the countryside, like the two figures in the center, a sudden storm forced the Emperor Tenchi (reigned 661–72) to take shelter in a rice farmer’s hut. The experience produced tears of sympathy for the common people toiling under heavy burdens and living in rough, flimsy homes. The poem at the upper right next to the cartouche reads: Lying on the rough Mats of rice-harvest guards In the autumn fields, I find the sleeves of my robe wet. Is the dew so heavy?
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冨嶽三十六景 身延川裏不二|View from the Other Side of Fuji from the Mino
諸國名橋奇覧 かうつけ佐野ふなはしの古づ|Old View of the Boat-bridge at Sano in 
百人一首 乳母かゑとき 猿丸太夫|Poem by Sarumaru Dayū, from the series One 
琉球八景 筍崖夕照|Evening Glow at Jungai (Jungai sekishō), from the 
琉球八景 粂村竹籬|Bamboo Hedge at Kumemura (Kumemura chikuri), from 
琉球八景 中島蕉園|Banana Garden at Nakashima (Nakashima shōen), from
冨嶽三十六景 東海道品川御殿山の不二|Fuji from Gotenyama at Shinagawa on the T
琉球八景 龍洞松濤|Pines and Waves at Ryūtō (Ryūtō shōtō), from the s
