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This autumn landscape with rice farmers and travelers is from Katsushika Hokusai’s series of prints inspired by the anthology <em>One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets</em> (<em>Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki</em>). While traveling through the countryside, like the two figures in the center, a sudden storm forced the Emperor Tenchi (reigned 661–72) to take shelter in a rice farmer’s hut. The experience produced tears of sympathy for the common people toiling under heavy burdens and living in rough, flimsy homes.<br><br>The poem at the upper right next to the cartouche reads:<br>Lying on the rough<br>Mats of rice-harvest guards<br>In the autumn fields,<br>I find the sleeves of my robe wet.<br>Is the dew so heavy?</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Hokusai" class="extiw" title="w:en:Hokusai"><span title="Japanese artist (1760-1849)">Katsushika Hokusai</span></a>
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1835
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