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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 landscape with a winding river in the center featuring a small waterfall on the right; blue in the middle and dark blue at the top where it meets a tan sky with clouds; the river has light blue and tan portions; green and tan land on both sides; trees with green foliage and red trunks; a tan and brown hill with trees on the left; a red mountain shape on the left center; a tan hill on the right; a building on a hill on the top right; foreign writing on the top right in red on a beige background; a grayscale ruler at the bottom.

Artwork details

Date:
1832
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
600 × 471 px
Museum record:
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