Hokusai Nagaban Woodblock Reed Gatherer Crossing A Footbridge

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Hokusai Nagaban Woodblock Reed Gatherer Crossing A Footbridge

A very rare Nagaban size woodblock print by Hokusai titled Reed Gatherer Crossing a footbridge.  From the series ‘A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poems’ by Shika Shashin Kagami.

The original as created circa 1833 to 1839.  This is a later reproduction made from restruck woodblocks.

A Horsetail (Reed) Gatherer returns from gathering horsetail rushes, which hang from a pole across his shoulder.  He is crossing a footbridge over a stream under a full moon with marshlands in the background.  It is widely believed that Hokusai had in mind this poem from a 1303 collection when he created this woodblock art:

When I was cutting horsetails
The autumn moon appeared
Shining through the trees
On Mount Sonahara.

Approximate dimensions of sheet are 54 cm Height and  24.4 cm

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Hokusai Katsushika – 1760-1849

Hokusai was completely obsessed by producing ukiyo-e (woodcut prints). He lived for nothing else working from early in the morning until after sunset.  The art name Gakyo-rojin, which he used from 1834-1849 means old man mad with painting.