↗Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · early 1830s
South Wind, Clear Sky, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image licence: CC0 · Museum record & image source ↗
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · 1835–36
Poem by Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, from the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by an Old Nurse
- Date
- 1835–36
- Medium
- Color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.4 x 36.9 cm (10 x 14 1/2 in.)
- Country / context
- Japan
- Movement / tradition
- Japanese art and printmaking
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Attribution / role
- Museum attribution
- Pathway
- Japanese art and printmaking ↗
ABOUT THIS WORK
Poem by Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, from the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by an Old Nurse is a representative work in our Katsushika Hokusai guide. The catalogue records Color woodblock print. Museum attribution. The linked artist guide places it alongside other works from the artist’s career.
Original educational overview · based on the linked museum recordPlace in the artist’s career
Compare the intimate figures and balcony setting of the 1799 print with Red Fuji’s large, simplified mountain and restricted colour contrasts. The later poetry print returns to narrative through a more expansive landscape. All three are collaborative colour woodblocks: a change of subject or scale does not necessarily mean a change of medium.
The artist’s practice
Artist-wide context; individual works may differ.
Media and surface
Colour woodblocks build images through registered impressions from separately inked blocks.
Marks and structure
Decisive contours and large simplified shapes organise figures, waves and mountains.
Palette and light
Restricted colour contrasts and unprinted paper can create depth without continuous modelling.
A MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.Follow a connection.
Explore the tradition ↗↗
↗Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · 1833
Driving Rain at Shōno, from Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaidō
Utagawa Hiroshige
↗Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · c. 1793
The Flirtatious Type, from Ten Types in the Physiognomy of Women
Kitagawa Utamaro
↗Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · c. 1830
A Low Tide Pentaptych
Utagawa Kuniyoshi