Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | The Cushion Pine at Aoyama (Aoyama Enza-no-matsu) | Edo period, 19th century

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June 11, 03:42 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 EUR

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Description

woodblock print, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), signed Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu (Brush of Iitsu, changed from Hokusai), published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), circa 1832, blue outline

Horizontal oban: 25.3 x 37.1 cm, 10 by 14½ in.

Men picnic beneath the celebrated cushion pine in the garden of Ryuganji Temple. In the lower left, a gardener rakes needles fallen from the surrounding young pines. Along the footpath, a father points towards Mount Fuji as his young son looks on, a cloth held between them. The mounded form of the cushion pine plays a subtle call-and-response with the conical shape of Mount Fuji.

A similar impression of the same print is in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1937,0710,0.141, go to:

https://ukwebnative.sothebys.com/ezx/view?id=22873396

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