Hokusai’s rice farmers
The Artdog Image of Interest Throughout September, the Artdog Images of Interest will highlight pieces of artwork by respected masters from around the world, that highlight the value of labor. This woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai dates to about 1835-6, and is the first of an incomplete series based on the poems collected in a famous anthology, A Hundred Poems by a Hundred Poets, collected by Fujiwara no Teika in 1235. The poem that inspired the print is attributed to Emperor Tenchi Tenno, in which he “expresses empathy…