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TITLE: Hokusai: One Hundred Poets
AUTHOR: Peter Morse
PUBLISHER: George Braziller, Inc., 1989
DIMENSIONS: 10 1/8 x 14 1/8 x 1 1/8 inches (hardcover)
PAGES: 222
TEXT: English
CONDITION: Excellent, unread; minor fading and small tears to dust jacket
PRICE: $150.00


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This lavishly illustrated, oversized book brings together the last major print series of the celebrated Japanese artist Hokusai and the Japanese poetry that inspired these beautiful prints. Whether depicting semi-nude female abalone divers struggling with their catch while a crew of shriveled old salts leers, or the carefree rapture of leisurely men and women observing cherry blossoms at their peak, Hokusai captures sublime and ridiculous states with drama and delicacy.

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 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.