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The Weir at Senju in Musashi Province (from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji)

Katsushika Hokusai

Cleveland Museum of Art

Woodblock print; rectangular; color image. The scene shows a pathway with four people and a horse in the foreground. The horse is brown with a dark mane and tail; its head is lowered. Three people pull the horse with ropes; the fourth sits on the path. The people wear traditional Japanese clothing; three have orange parasols. Behind the people are white pillars. In the background, there are trees and low hills. A mountain with a snow peak is visible on the horizon. The sky transitions from dark blue at the top to light gray. There are Japanese characters on a vertical rectangle in the top left corner and written vertically on the left.

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900 × 611 px
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