| schema:description 11 | "measurements: Overall: 25.6 x 37.3 cm (10 1/16 x 14 11/16 in.)" |
| schema:description | "id: 152505" |
| schema:description | "inscription: Kokoro ni mo / arade uki yo ni / nagaraeba / koishikarubeki / yowa no tsuki kana" |
| schema:description | "creditline: Gift of J. H. Wade" |
| schema:description | "collection: Japanese Art" |
| schema:description | "technique: color woodblock print" |
| schema:description | "culture: Japan, Edo Period (1615-1868)" |
| schema:description | "digital_description: A priest raises a <em>gohei</em>, a ritual implement with zig-zag strips of white paper attached to a staff, while the surrounding figures reverentially bow in a moonlit ceremony honoring Emperor Sanjo (976–1017, reigned 1012–16)....(more)" |
| schema:description | "type: Print" |
| schema:description | "wall_description: Hokusai used a poetry anthology as inspiration for a series of prints. It illustrates a melancholy poem about death and the moon that Emperor Sanjo (976–1017, reigned 1012–16) wrote while suffering from illness and facing pressure to abdicate, which he did in 1016, dying only a year later.<br><br>Stylized clouds frame a moonlit ceremony honoring the long-suffering emperor’s memory. A priest raises a <em>gohei</em>, a ritual implement with zig-zag strips of white paper attached to a staff, while the surrounding figures reverentially bow....(more)" |
| schema:description | "tombstone: Poem by Emperor Sanjo, from the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by an Old Nurse, 1835-36. Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849). Color woodblock print; overall: 25.6 x 37.3 cm (10 1/16 x 14 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1985.326...(more)" |
