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In the Mountains of Tōtomi Province (Tōtomi sanchū), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Katsushika Hokusai

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woodblock print; color on paper. A large, light-brown, angled beam is held up by two A-frames on either side. Three men are present. One man wearing a blue outfit with white pants and blue headscarf is on top of the beam with his hands grasping the beam and feet on a gray block. He is looking down. Two men are on the ground, one on the left wearing a blue outfit with a white headscarf, sitting on a brown block, chiseling at it with a chisel and mallet; on the right, a man wearing a dark-gray short-sleeve kimono and white headscarf stands on a brown patch. The background includes a blue sky with clouds and distant mountains; a mountain with a pointy peak protrudes on the left. On the right are rounded bluish-green hills with trees. A group of dark-gray clouds appears on the right, with many swirls. A white vertical rectangle in the top-left contains Japanese characters.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 1830–32
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
600 × 400 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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