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Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai, 1760-1849
A Journey to the Waterfalls in All the Provinces: Ono Waterfall on the Kisokaido Road
(Shokoku Taki Meguri: Kisokaido Ono no Bakufu)

a group of travelers pause at the Ono waterfall of the Kiso river near the village of Kagematsu, at center is a small shelter on a rock outcropping and above rises a light grey and blue mist obscuring steep cliffs; signed zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu, with censor's seal kiwame, publisher's seal Eijudo (Nishimuraya Yohachi), ca. 1832.
oban tate-e 15 1/8 by 10 in., 38.4 by 25.5 cm
References:
Matthi Forrer, Hokusai: Prints and Drawings, 1991, no. 40
Gian Carlo Calza, Hokusai: Il vecchio pazzo per la pittura, 1999, p. 83, no. 5a; p. 342, no. V48.5
Published:
Katherine Martin, Highlights of Japanese Printmaking: Part One, Scholten Japanese Art, New York, 2005, no. 35
$35,000