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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Mounting Love at the Snowbound Barrier (Tsumoru koi yuki no seki no to) | Edo period, 19th century

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

Mounting Love at the Snowbound Barrier (Tsumoru koi yuki no seki no to)

Edo period, 19th century 


woodblock print, surimono, signed Gakyojin Hokusai ga (Pictured by Hokusai, man crazy to paint), privately issued, circa 1805 


Surimono, ebankiri: 19.5 x 53.4 cm., 7¾ x 21 in. 

The print depicts a scene from the play Mounting Love at the Snowbound Barrier (Tsumoru koi yuki no seki no to). Ono no Komachi (left) pays a visit to her fiancé, Yoshimine Munesada (right), who is at home playing the koto. Sekibei (centre), with his large axe placed on bales of straw, stands beneath the bowing branches of a cherry tree in spring bloom. 


For a detailed synopsis of the play, see Timothy Clark et al., The Actor's Image (London, 1994), p. 36-48.