Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 51640
Ushibori in Hitachi Province (Joshu Ushibori)
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- Artist / 作者
- Katsushika Hokusai葛飾北斎
- Date / 年代
- 1830-1833
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / met
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 3875 × 2682 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 紫藤メイ
- Rights / 権利
- CC0 1.0 only when Open Access-designated
- Attribution / 表記
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Catalog note / 解説
Lying some 60 miles from Itako, in Hitachi province (present-day Ibaraki prefecture), Ushibori was on Lake Kasumi-ga-ura. Because it had an inland harbor connecting to Chöshi, many boats and ships stopped at Ushibori. A boat of gigantic scale anchors in the marshy water, its bow rising diagonally to the left, its stern concealed by a dune. Frightened birds fly away before it. Everything seems silent; no wind stirs the grasses. Beyond the dense reeds rises a snow-covered Fuji. A boatman washing rice for his dinner leans against the gunwale to pour out the rinse water. Hokusai is obviously interested in the life of this boatman, and he meticulously depicts the boat inside and out. The roof or…
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