Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 53141

Ascending Dragon and Fuji

Artist / 作者
Katsushika Hokusai葛飾北斎
Date / 年代
2007
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Heisei / jaodb
Digital record / 画像記録
1200 × 1024 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Japanese Art Open Database
Published by / 公開者
朝倉レン
Rights / 権利
No reusable image license documented
Attribution / 表記
Japanese Art Open Database

Catalog note / 解説

Sunday, 22 July 2007 Kakemono Painting: Ascending Dragon and Fuji Artist: Hokusai Format: Painting in sumi and slight colour on paper mounted on silk brocades: image size 9" x 14" Subject: A painting in sumi and slight colour for the eyes, of a Dragon clawing its way up through a cloud, Mount Fuji in the background. Bearing the signature 'Hachiju-yon ro Manji hitsu' (Painted by Manji, old man of eighty-four). The 'Katsushika' seal used on this painting corresponds exactly to that used for a contemporary painting (1840) by Hokusai now in the British Museum Collection of a Young Man on a Bench. See Clark, Ukiyo-e Paintings in the British Museum, #101 page 151. The signature corresponds to the…

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