Mt. Fuji art, Ushibori in Hitachi Province by Katsushika Hokusai

Leave a Comment / Katsushika Hokusai, Paintings, Ukiyoe-wood block printing / artworks, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, ukiyo-e, woodblock printings

19.Ushibori in Hitachi Province

 
19. Ushibori in Hitachi Province
  The ukiyo-e printing depicts the Lake Kasumigaura in the early morning. As the cold colors underlie, this artwork is the scene of the winter and express the freezing weather. A man is pouring away the water that has been used to wash rice to the lake from the boat with the roof. The boat is placed in the diagonal of the screen.   And the two white egrets are flying away.   It may be no sound around there except them.   200 years after Kastushika Hokusai (1760-1849) drew the landscape of Ushibori, Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) also make the woodblock printing “Evening of Ushibori”              Previous
www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com
Bay of Noboto from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"
18.Bay of Noboto  18. Bay of Noboto People are gathering the shells in shallows of Bay of Noboto. The two Torii of Towatari Shrine in the sea. They take a similar figure and the simple line of Mt. Fuji is placed in the bigger one. Katsushika Hokusai（1760-1849) often employed the composition that the mountain show its appearance in a space of a strucure.  Learn about the Japanese Shinto shrine The fishermen are carrying a cage full of shells, the women are talking and…
  Next
www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com
Goten-yama-hill, Shinagawa on the Tōkaidō from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"
20.Goten-yama-hill, Shinagawa on the Tōkaidō  20. Goten-yama-hill, Shinagawa on the Tōkaidō Goten-yama-hill at Shinagawa was famous for the beautiful cherry blossoms in the Edo period. Utagawa Hiroshige(1797-1858) made a lot of ukiyo-e about cherry blossom, but Katsushika Hokusai(1760-1849) drew just one work in the series of "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji". Not only the pale pink of the blossoms attract our attention, the people who take in the view also make the im…
          Back to the gallery of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji”
 

Related posts:

Katsushika Hokusai’s, ‘Surugadai in the Eastern Capital’ landscape ukiyo-e art ‘Tea house at Koishikawa, the Morning after a Snowfall’ by Katsushika Hokusai ‘Goten-yama-hill, Shinagawa on the Tōkaidō’ painting by Katsushika Hokusai Katsushika Hokusai’s woodblock print, ‘Mishima Pass in Kai Province’ Hokusai’s ukiyo-e, The Fuji from Kanaya on the Tōkaidō Katsushika Hokusai’s art, ‘Kajikazawa in Kai Province’

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.