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Country scenes and Mount Fuji; one of a pair with F1902.49
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)
ca. 1830-1832
- Medium
- Ink, color and gold on paper
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- H x W (overall): 169.1 x 369.8 cm (66 9/16 x 145 9/16 in)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
During the Edo period (1615-1868), ukiyo-e artists like Hokusai were considered mere "painting artisans" (gako). Large-scale works, such as folding screens or sets of sliding doors, remained the preserve of officially employed artists and certain designated townsman painters. Hokusai, despite his fame, painted only a limited number of screens. Most of his large-scale works are in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, reflecting Charles Lang Freer's determination to build the finest Hokusai painting collection in the world.
