Jito Tenno (Workers Dyeing Cloth), from Hyakunin Isshu ubaga Etoki (The Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse)

Katsushika HokusaiWW-1840-025063

1840·Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color·25.6 x 36.5 cm (10 1/16 x 14 3/8 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1840
Medium: Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color
Dimensions: 25.6 x 36.5 cm (10 1/16 x 14 3/8 in.)
Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai

Artist

Katsushika Hokusai

Painting

Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works had a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wave of Japonisme that spread across Europe in the late 19th century.

Tokyo, Japan

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