Hokusai One Hundred Poets

by Peter Morse

This lavishly illustrated, oversized (17" x 10") book brings together the last major print series of the celebrated Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849) and the Japanese poetry that inspired these beautiful prints. Whether showing semi-nude women abalone divers struggling with their catch while a male crew of shriveled old salts leers from a nearby boat, or the carefree rapture of a leisurely group of men and women observing cherry blossoms at their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807612138
• ISBN13: 9780807612132
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 10.3" x 16.5"