Artist

Katsushika Hokusai (1760~1849)

Japanese Woodblock Print  Name

#39 - Tōkaidō Yoshida (Yoshida at Tōkaidō) 東海道吉田

From Series - Thirty six Views of Mount Fuji

The entire screen depicts the front of a teahouse, with Mount Fuji beyond the mist seen

 from the back of the shop.

 It is as if one is looking at the stage from the theatre seats, and the composition feels

 more like a genre painting than a landscape.

This type of composition is rare in ukiyo-e works of the time and is rarely seen elsewhere,

 but Hokusai was probably trying to depict a scene in which Mount Fuji was a natural

 part of everyday life for ordinary people. In fact, the painting features a wide variety of

 characters, including a woman admiring Mount Fuji, a teahouse girl,

a palanquin carrier, and an old man putting on straw sandals.

Incidentally, Yoshida, a post station on the Tokaido, is now Toyohashi City

in Aichi Prefecture.

This series of Hokusai’s “Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji” has been reproduced by

the Tokyo traditional Woodblock Print Association.

These traditional woodblock prints are produced by a contemporary dream team of many of the top skilled Japanese craftsmen, exactly as was the first edition at Edo-Tokyo Museum

Approx Image Size 

Height 25.00 cm  x Width 38.00 cm

(H 9.843 " x  W 14.961 ")

Condition  

The print is in perfect state.

It has never been rolled up or framed,

and has been kept in professional condition.

Color 

Please refer to our pictures for color.

The color of the actual woodblock prints may be slightly different from our online images because it is impossible to show the precise color of these fine art woodblock prints and the delicate texture of our long-lasting traditional craft-made Washi Paper.