Name: Fujieda: Two ri and nine cho to Shimada
Brand: Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)
Price: 800.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)
Fujieda: Two ri and nine cho to Shimada, from an untitled series of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road

Woodblock print, signed Gakyojin Hokusai ga, circa 1804
Double-width horizontal kokonotsugiri [one-ninth oban]: (34.5 x 11.8cm.)

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Lot Essay

Two women are seated at the counter of a shop selling seto someii to travellers. As shown in this print, someii [coloured rice] was steamed in wooden frames over a stove and then sold in flat parcels placed between the white disks shown to the left of the women.

For another impression in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, see www.mfa.org, accession number 21.10278 and another in the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, go to http://embarkkiosk.chazen.wisc.edu/OBJ7664

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