Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 54865
Girls Boating
- Artist / 作者
- Katsushika Hokusai葛飾北斎
- Date / 年代
- 1797
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / honolulu
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 481 × 215 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Honolulu Museum of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 白石カナ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Catalog note / 解説
From the late 1790s to the 1820s, before he released the famous landscape print series, Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (ca. 1830-35), Hokusai produced many surimono (prints made for special occasions) for kyöka poetry. Kyöka is characterized by light and witty, thirty-one-syllable verses. Thus, during this time, Hokusai was better known as a kyöka print artist than a landscape artist. In 1795, after leaving the Katsukawa School, Shunrö (Hokusai) took the name of Tawaraya Söri and was active in new field until around 1798. The name, Tawaraya, to which he succeeded was that of the head of a school of painters carrying o the decorative tradition of the Rinpa. Although there are no records showin…
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