Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 95894

Picture of the Suehirobashi on Tenpözan by Moonlight

Artist / 作者
Yashima Gakutei屋島岳亭
Date / 年代
1834
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / honolulu
Digital record / 画像記録
481 × 321 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Honolulu Museum of Art
Published by / 公開者
水野ナギ
Rights / 権利
No reusable image license documented
Attribution / 表記
Honolulu Museum of Art

Catalog note / 解説

Gakutei trained under Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850), one of Katsushika Hokusai's best students. However, he may also have studied directly with Hokusai. Gakutei was a kyöka poet as well as an author of gesaku (Edo-period literary works of a playful, or frivolous nature). He moved to Osaka from Edo (Tokyo) some time in the early 1830s, during the Tenpö period (1830-44), and created his series “Fine Views of Mt. Tenpö ” in 1834. Japanese artistic devices such as the use of flat colors, theatrical horizontal clouds around the bottom of the composition, and cropped motifs (the boat), are well fused with Western perspective, which is typical of the eclectic landscape style of the Hokusai School. (fr…

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