HOKUSAI KATSUSHIKA, Fuji under a jet of water, Kakehi no fuji , n.54

HOKUSAI KATSUSHIKA, Fuji under a jet of water, Kakehi no fuji , n.54

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Series : One Hundred Views of Fuji, Fugaku Hyakkei 

Technique: nishikie, woodcuts in two shades of gray.

Format: hanshinbon koban diptych (about 183x253 mm)

Signatures : Zen Hokusai Iitsu aratame Gakyorojin Manji

Artist's seal : Fuji no Yama

Dates : engraved between 1834 – 1836, impressed between 1850 and 1870

Engravers: Egawa Tomekichi and Tsentaro

Publisher: Katano Toshiro.

Splendid proof with good contrasts, in the third edition from the original woodcuts. Printed on Japan paper, in excellent condition, with clean edges all around beyond the marginal line.

Bibliography:

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Calza GC Hokusai, the hundred views of Fuji , Milan, 1982.

Dickins FV Fugaku hiyaku-kei: one hundred view of Fuji by Hokusai , London, 1880.

Forrer M. Hokusai, prints and drawings , London, 1991.

Hillier J. The art of Hokusai in book illustration , London, 1980.

Lane R. Hokusai, life and works , Milan, 1991.

Salamon Villa T., The hundred views of Fuji, Turin, 1975.

Smith II H. Hokusai: one hundred view of Fuji by Hokusai, London, 1988.

With a remarkable compositional structure, Hokusai invites the eye to go up the river, accompanying it with the various figures that populate its banks, to bring it to linger on the Fuji, visible behind the jet of the small waterfall.

Delicate and realistic is the figure of a wayfarer who, having raised his head to admire the mountain, instinctively brings a hand to secure his hat.