Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province (Buyo Tsukuda-jima) | Edo period, 19th century
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province (Buyo Tsukuda-jima)
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, aizuri-e, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu (Brush of Iitsu, the former Hokusai), censor’s seal kiwame (approved), published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), late 1831, blue outline; with collector's seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso
Horizontal oban: 25.5 x 37.1 cm., 10 x 14⅝ in.
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Île de Tsukuda, époque Edo, XIXe siècle
Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)
Passenger, pleasure and cargo boats are at sail in the bay of Edo around Tsukuda Island. In the foreground, the triangular supports around the cargo in the largest boat answers the conical shape of Mount Fuji. The subtleties of the newly imported Berlin blue pigment, the only colour used in this early printing, is fully exploited by the use of delicate graduations and small areas of over-printing.1 This is one of the first five designs from the series of which all were printed entirely in shades of Berlin blue. Later states introduced colours to the designs.
A similar impression of the same print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), accession number JP2563.
1. Timothy Clark, ed., Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave (London, 2017), p. 113.
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