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Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)
The Falling Mist Waterfall at Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province (Shimotsuke Kurokamiyama Kirifuri no taki)
Woodblock print, from the series A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)
Signed Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), circa 1832
Vertical oban (37.6 x 25.2cm.)
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This dynamic design is from Hokusai's majestic set of eight prints, each of a waterfall. Here pilgrims from Nikko admire the Kirifuri, [lit. Falling Mist] waterfall that cascades down Kurokami mountain in Shimotsuke Province.

For another impression in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.19718, go to www.mfa.org/collections and for another in the British Museum, museum number 1906,1220,0.552, go to www.britishmuseum.org/research

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