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"title": "Poem by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, from One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by an Old Nurse",
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"inscription": "Signature: Zen Hokusai \u524d\u5317\u658e.\nArtist's Seal: Manji \u534d.\nPublisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo \u6c38\u5bff\u5802).\nCensorship Seal: kiwame \u6975.",
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"inscription": "Poem: \u3042\u3057\u3072\u304d\u306e\u3000\u5c71\u9ce5\u306e\u3092\u306e\u3000\u3057\u3060\u308a\u3092\u306e\u3000\u306a\u304c\u306a\u304c\u3057\u3088\u3092\u3000\u3072\u3068\u308a\u304b\u3082\u5bdd\u3093 \nAshibiki no/ yamadori no o no/ shidari o no/ naganagashi yo o/ hitori ka mo nemu",
"inscription_translation": "Poem by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (c. 660\u2013739): \n\nMust I sleep alone/ \nthrough the long autumn nights,/ \nlong like the dragging tail/ \nof the mountain pheasant/ \nseparated from his dove?\n\n\u2014Translation by Joshua Mostow",
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"description": "Katsushika Hokusai designed this print series from the perspective of a confused nurse attempting to illustrate classical poetry but missing the subtle allusions. This interpretation creates what would have been considered a comical disconnect between poem and image. The poem, by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (about 660\u2013739), reads as follows:
Must I sleep alone
through the long autumn nights,
long like the dragging tail
of the mountain pheasant
separated from his dove?
\u2014translation by Joshua Mostow
Hitomaro wrote of an emotionally tiring night. The nurse thought instead of the physically exhausting work of fishermen dragging a net upstream. Smoke billows across the scene, directing our attention to a figure, perhaps the nurse, in the distant house.",
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"citation": "Howard Conley Hollis. \"The Edward Loder Whittemore Collection of Japanese Prints.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 4 (1930): 64-66.",
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"citation": "Morse, Peter, Hokusai Katsushika, and Clay MacCauley. Hokusai, One Hundred Poets. New York: G. Braziller, 1989.",
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