Private Collection of Fine Japanese Prints
Private Collection of Fine Japanese Prints
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) USHIBORI IN HATACHI PROVINCE (JOSHU USHIBORI) | EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) USHIBORI IN HATACHI PROVINCE (JOSHU USHIBORI)
EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
woodblock print, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), signed saki no Hokusai litsu hitsu, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), censor's seal kiwame, publisher's mark Eijudo, circa 1831
Horizontal oban:
24.9 x 37.3 cm, 9⅞ x 14¾ in.
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Matthi Forrer, Hokusai (London, 2010), no. 19
Timothy Clark, 100 Views of Mount Fuji (London, 2001)
Timothy Clark, 100 Views of Mount Fuji (London, 2001), no. 46
A man leans over his boat to empty a cooking pot into the calm waters below. As the contents splash into the water, two egrets emerge from within the reeds. The setting is Lake Kasumigaura, where a timber-framed cargo boat or takasebune, filled with goods, reeds and matting, each element carefully picked out in contrasting gradations of blue, is visible. The boat is placed along a diagonal axis within the composition and the position of its bow is mirrored by a distant towering Mount Fuji, its white peak and slopes rising from the landscape below, where atmospheric mist envelopes the houses of Ushibori.
For further examples in museum collections see the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 21.5363 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no. JP2565