Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 54000
Travelling Around the Waterfall Country
- Artist / 作者
- Katsushika Hokusai葛飾北斎
- Date / 年代
- 1832
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / kruml
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 1100 × 1591 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Japanese Prints London
- Published by / 公開者
- 白石カナ
- Rights / 権利
- No commercial-app permission documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Japanese Prints London
Catalog note / 解説
One of the most majestic landscape sets: Shokoku takimeguri, “Travelling Around the Waterfall Country.” A series of eight waterfalls, this being the Kirifuri, “Falling Mist” fall that cascades down Kurokami mountain in Shimotsuke Province. Shimotsuke Kurokamiyama Kirifuri no taki. Pilgrims from Nikko admire the fall, one with Eijudo’s seal ( the publisher ) on his back; another with “Ei” on his back. Published c. 1832. Interestingly, there is a clever set of copies of this set, fully discussed in Oriental Art, Summer 1972, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, pp. 141 – 147 by Roger Keyes. Very good impression and colour. Slightly trimmed around: These designs are martyrs to trimming being slightly over-sized…
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