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Edo prints

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	Design:	Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
	Title:	A sudden gust of wind in Ejiri province
	Series title:	Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji
	Size:	22.2 x 37.6 cm (ōban)
	Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Originally published around 1831 by publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi, this printing is an early post-war period original edition from publisher Takamizawa.

Artist’s signature in top left print area:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
前	zen	before
北	hoku	north
斎	sai	room	Drawn by Iitsu
為	i	change	(meaning ‘‘One year old again’’)
一	itsu	one	formerly known
筆	hitsu	writing brush	as Hokusai

Series and print title in cartouche in top left of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
富	fu	wealth
嶽	gaku	peak
三	san	three
十	jū	ten	Thirty-six
六	roku	six	views of
景	kei	view	Mount Fuji
駿	sun	speed
州	shū	province
江	e	bay	A sudden gust of wind
尻	jiri	hips	in Ejiri province

Red publisher stamp on verso of the print:

The stamp consists of the Takamizawa seal, the roman text ‘‘Takamizawa Print’’, and the following kanji:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
高	taka	high
見	mi(ru)	see
沢	sawa	marsh
忠	tada	faithfulness
雄	o	great	Made
製	sei	manufacture	by
作	saku	make	Takamizawa Tadao

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The subject of people caught up in a gust of wind is one of several recurring themes in Hokusai’s work. Earlier he treated this subject in his Manga volumes 7 and 12, for example, and later in volume 1 of his One hundred views of Mount Fuji series of prints.

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References

• Dalon, Laure, Nagata, Seiji, Negishi, Mika, Takemura, Makoto, Okuda, Atsuko (2014). Hokusai. Paris, Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, 1er octobre 2014 - 18 janvier 2015. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux.

• Forrer, Matthi (1991). Hokusai, Prints and Drawings. Munich: Prestel Verlag and Royal Academy of Arts, London.

• Forrer, Matthi (2010). Hokusai. Munich: Prestel Verlag.

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Provenance: Seller kobijutuhirota on Buyee