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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