Katsushika Hokusai
Efter. Under the Wave of Kanagawa, (Kanagawa-oki nami-ura), också känd som "den stora vågen", senare publikation.
Träsnitt (oban). Mått 37,5x26 cm.
Den stora vågen får berget Fuji att se litet ut. Våg skum och stänk från vågen faller som snö. Tree små båtar (oshiokuri) som är på väg att leverera fisk till marknaden i Edo tycks styra rakt in i stormen utan för Kanagawa. Man ser rorsmännen krypa ihop och göra sig redo att slåss mot naturens krafter.
Stämpeln på baksidan indikerar att det skulle kunna vara en senare publikation av publicisten Adachi, grundat 1925. Stämpeln kan dock också vara en ägarmärkning.
Nålstick, fläckar, slitage, tejprester.
Tilläggslista
Stämpeln på baksidan indikerar att det skulle kunna vara en senare publikation av publicisten Adachi, grundat 1925. Stämpeln kan dock också vara en ägarmärkning.
Utställningar
The print is in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 06.1283, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. JP2569, and the British Museum, accession no. 1937,0710,0.147.
Compare the print in The Art Institute Chicago. Credit Line Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number 1952.343.
Litteratur
For comprehensive discussion of this print design, see Timothy Clark, Hokusai's Great Wave (BMP, 2011).
Övrig information
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is set at Kanagawa-juku (juku means relay station in Japanese), one of the stations on the Eastern Sea Route, called the Tokaido. Tokaido, meaning ‘close to the coast,’ is an extremely important route from the Edo period (1603-1868 AD), connecting major cities of Kyoto in the West and Edo (modern day Tokyo) in the East. It is much more crowded than inland Nakasendo, and the Central Mountain Road connecting the same cities. Groups of travelers and merchants went up and down this route each night, resting at a juku equipped with stables, room and board. The stations on the road, as well as checkpoints, are government controlled. In total, there are fifty-three stations on the Tokaido, each of them about a day’s march apart. Kanagawa is the third station from Tokyo.