Katsushika Hokusai
Travellers Approaching Miya
1803
Physical Qualities
Color woodcut, Sheet: 126 x 352 mm. (12.6 x 35.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Elizabeth F. Cheney Trust, Chicago
Object Number
2001.83
Two castles at left on high embankment, water fills center with hills in background; 3 ladies walking at right with attendant, plum branches in bloom behind the ladies. Waves embossed, printed white on white.
Frances Klapthor, BMA rotation, "Before Bonnard & Vuillard: Japanese Prints from The Baltimore Museum of Art," Sept. 17-Dec. 2, 2008.
Inscribed: Signed, UR: "Gakyojin Hokusai ga" Mat: center, below print, pencil, 'Hokusai/Series-Stations on the Tokaido Road-'; typed on small label, '42.Miya'; RE, '25'; BE, '#51'.
