Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 51280

Sangi Takamura

Artist / 作者: Katsushika Hokusai葛飾北斎
Date / 年代: 1835
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / aic
Digital record / 画像記録: 2000 × 1397 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Art Institute of Chicago
Published by / 公開者: 星野アカリ
Rights / 権利: CC0 1.0 when is_public_domain=true
Attribution / 表記: Katsushika Hokusai. Sangi Takamura, 1835. The Art Institute of Chicago.

Catalog note / 解説

Hokusai depicts a scene of women divers (ama) fishing for abalone (awabi). On the steep rock, three ama rest while several cheerful women dive in the ocean, their feet and arms emerging from the rolling waves. Although men also could be divers, traditionally it was women who dived, aided by men who waited for them in boats to gather their catch. In traditional style, the divers are naked to the waist. Hokusai interpreted the poem of Ono no Takamura (802-852), a personal counselor to the emperor. When Takamura's mission to China as ambassador failed because of a typhoon, he was criticized and exiled to one of the Eighty Islands. Two years later, he was pardoned and allowed to return to Kyoto…

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