Katsushika Hokusai
A Spring View of Mt. Akiba
1803
Physical Qualities
Color woodcut, Sheet: 129 x 351 mm. (12.9 x 35.1 cm.)
Portfolio/Series
From an untitled series of views along the Tokaido Road
Credit Line
Gift of the Elizabeth F. Cheney Trust, Chicago
Object Number
2001.82
Hill at left in middle ground, pine tree and flowering plum at center; 2 women with baskets and attendant at right. Water in distance, and clouds overhead, embossed.
Inscribed: Signed, UR: "Gakyojin Hokusai ga". FACE: TLC, pencil, '22 AKIHASAN-EARLY SPRING'. MOUNT: center below print, typed on label, 'Akihasan in early spring'. MAT: center below print, pencil, 'Hokusai/Series - The Tokaido Road'; BE, '#50'; RE, '25'.
