Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 54821
Mount Fuji From Gotenyama, at Shinagawa On The Tökaidö Road
- Artist / 作者
- Katsushika Hokusai葛飾北斎
- Date / 年代
- 1827-1837
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / honolulu
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 481 × 333 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Honolulu Museum of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 青木ソラ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Catalog note / 解説
The print is one of Hokusai’s extremely detailed compositions. It depicts a merry scene of cherry-blossom viewing at Gotenyama, the hill north of Shinagawa in Edo. Gotenyama, or Palace Mountain, was so named because this hill was said to have been the site of the shogun’s villa. Shinagawa was the first stop of the fifty three stations of the Tökaidö Road, approximately 5 miles from Nihonbashi, where the road began. With its fantastic ocean view and cherry trees planted during the Kanbun period (1661-72), Gotenyama was a very popular picnic spot. Hokusai represents this famous hill with its cherry trees in full blossom. As seen in this print, cherry trees characteristically blossom before th…
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