A wagtail beneath cascading wisteria blooms

A slender wagtail with a grey-blue back, white underside and a long pointed tail perches at the base of cascading wisteria vines, its head lowered toward a curling tendril. Clusters of pale blue-lavender blossoms tipped with brown and pointed green leaves hang from twisting stems against a plain cream ground that deepens to soft coral along the top edge. Calligraphy naming the bird and the flower, a poem, and Hokusai's signature with red seals fill the open ground.

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) is the most widely known of all Japanese artists. Over a seventy-year career he worked under some thirty names, produced books, sketches and paintings by the thousand, and in his seventies designed the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, including The Great Wave and Red Fuji, which reshaped landscape printmaking and later European art. He called himself the old man mad about drawing. His prints are held by the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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