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"inscription": "In the mountain village,/ \nit is in winter that my loneliness/ \nincreases most,/ \nwhen I think of how both have dried up,/ \nthe grasses and people\u2019s visits.\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 on this print reads as follows:
In the mountain village,
it is in winter that my loneliness
increases most,
when I think of how both have dried up,
the grasses and people\u2019s visits.
\u2014Translation by Joshua Mostow
While nobleman Minamoto no Muneyuki (died 939) wrote of dying grasses, the nurse imagines instead a lively scene of hunters warming themselves around a fire.",
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