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Aug 13, 2014
The Minister Toru Daijin Standing by a Lake Beneath a Crescent Moon, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry
The Minister Toru Daijin Standing by a Lake Beneath a Crescent Moon, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry
1834–35
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎
(Japanese, 1760–1849)
(1615-1868)
Color woodblock print
Overall: 52 x 23 cm (20 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1142
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A high-ranking minister, Toru (822–895) was the son of an emperor. In this scene, he enjoys the company of two other men in his landscape garden overlooking the water. Here Hokusai may have illustrated a poem by Toru that mentions boats floating on the water in bright moonlight, shaded by the pines.
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