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Subject:Re: Woodblock Print - Identification help, please Mt Fuji/Hara Station
Posted By: I. Nagy Mon, Sep 18, 2017
東海道五拾三次 Fifty-three Stations of Tokaido Road
原 Hara
廣重賀 Hiroshige ga (Hiroshige picture)
(This is the signature -Right bottom)
This is the so-called Sanoki (佐野喜)or Kyouka-iri (狂歌入)edition of the series from 1840 (or
later print)
Kyouka-iri means, there are so-called "mad poems" written on each print.
The kyouka on this print in my translation reads,
けふいくか What's the date today
足よ腰よと Oh my leg, oh my waist,
あゆみ来て I walked up here,
見あぐるはらの Whenever I look up
不二の I can observe the greatness
大きさ of Fuji
数寿垣 Inada
(Kyou iku ka,Ashi yo,koshi yo to,
Ayumikite miaguru hara no Fuji no ookisa
Inada
The last word Inada (Engl.yellowtail: name of a fish) serves as an ending pun or wordplay,
On the first Hoeido (保永堂)edition (1832) one
can see women accompanied by manservant who is
carrying their baggages, not this three
small tea-houses with men and horses.
With regards,
I.Nagy
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