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The Sacred Spring at Jōgaku (Jōgaku reisen), from the series Eight Views of the Ryūkyū Islands (Ryūkyū hakkei)

Katsushika Hokusai

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A colorful landscape painting on rectangular paper or canvas depicting a natural scene. The scene includes a body of water with a small island on the left side and a distant red mountain. In the foreground, there is a small waterfall flowing into the body of water, surrounded by greenery and trees. A grassy area with trees is on the right side. A white cloud is over a building on higher ground on the right side. A blue and white sky is above. There is a color reference tool at the bottom. A block of foreign text is in the top right corner.

Artwork details

Date:
ca. 1832
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
600 × 464 px
Museum record:
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