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Subject:translate poem in Hokusai Tokaido print
Posted By: francis minvielle Mon, Jun 09, 2025 IP: 88.161.198.9
Can you translate this poem, and is it also by Hokusai?
Thanks!!!



Subject:Re: translate poem in Hokusai Tokaido print
Posted By: I.Nagy Mon, Jun 09, 2025
香林舎万九　Kōrin Shamankyū*
いや高き人も目川の初若菜御召に妹かたつきうぢほん
The noblest are the first young greens of Mekawa, and their younger sister is the Katatsuki-udon**

* Another name for Ōta Nanpō, a kyōka poet who was active in the late Edo period

**　a kind of thick noodle made from wheat floor

With regards,
I.Nagy

Subject:Re: translate poem in Hokusai Tokaido print
Posted By: francis minvielle Tue, Jun 10, 2025
I am dumbfounded, again!
Thanks so much,
Francis

Subject:Re: translate poem in Hokusai Tokaido print
Posted By: manuD Tue, Jun 10, 2025
The seal in the lower left corner is that of the collector Hayashi, Tadamasa

URL Title :Hayashi, Tadamasa


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