Katsushika Hokusai
A Spring View of Mt. Akiba
1803
Physical Qualities
Color woodcut, Sheet: 129 x 351 mm. (12.9 x 35.1 cm.)
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'.
