WOW !!! ORIGINAL JAPANESE UKIYO-e WOODBLOCK BY SATO NORIKIYO (1118 - 1190) TITLED "THE GAY QUATERS"

WOW !!! ORIGINAL JAPANESE UKIYO-e WOODBLOCK BY SATO NORIKIYO (1118 - 1190) TITLED "THE GAY QUATERS"

Saigyo was the pen-name of Sato Norikiyo (1118-90), a warrior in the service of Emperor Toba, who in 1140 took religious vows and left his family at court to travel the country and compose some of the greatest 'waka' poetry in the Japanese language. One common later depiction of an episode from Saigyo's life, not apparently deriving from sources close to his period, shows him as an aged man in monk's black robes, with walking stick and travelling hat, pausing on his journeying to gaze in wonder at Mt Fuji

FRAME SIZE IS 365 X 480mm , PICTURE IS 180 X 290mm 

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