No.3 Fishermen hauling a net by night
£15.00
Artist: Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849)
Title: No.3 Fishermen hauling a net by night
Series: 100 Poems explained by a Nurse
Japanese Series: Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi
Date: Edo Period, c.1835-36
The print illustrates a poem about loneliness (top right corner) by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, one of the Japanese poetic immortals. The series was to be Hokusai’s last great work and was left incomplete. Only 27 different images are known in existence.
