Artist: Ogata Gekko
Title: Samurai and Globe Flower - Ukiyo Junikagetsu
Date: 1890.
Details & Prices: Ogata Gekko: Samurai and Globe Flower - Ukiyo Junikagetsu - Artelino
Source:
artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description:
"Ukiyo Junikagetsu" (Twelve Months of the Floating World) April. Lord of Edo Castle, Ohta Dokan was hunting with falcon at Takada. A sudden rain shower started. He went to a village house nearby to borrow a straw raincoat. The girl of the house presented him only a branch of Japanese globe flowers without saying anything. Later, he was told that the flower suggested an old poem which meant that she did not have a straw raincoat. Dokan shamed that he did not know the poem, and he started learning the old waka poems.
