Edo prints


  Design: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)  
  Print title: Sumida river  
  Series title: Snow, moon, and flowers  
  Size: 25.1 x 36.8 cm (ōban)  
  Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Hokusai Sumida river

Enlargement


Originally published around 1833 by Nishimuraya Yohachi. This is a later edition from newly cut blocks published in the 1950s by the Adachi Institute of woodblock prints.

Series title and artist’s signature in rectangular white cartouche in top right of the print:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
setsu snow  
getsu moon  
ka flower Snow, moon and flowers
       
zen before  
hoku north  
sai room Drawn by
i change Iitsu,
itsu one formerly known
hitsu writing brush as Hokusai

Print title in round white cartouche in top right of the print:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
sumi corner  
ta rice field Sumida river


References


Provenance: Fuji Arts

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