HOKUSAI (1760-1849). Takanawa. (Sold)
Artist:
Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Subject:
Street scene in Takanawa in Edo Bay with some travellers, a woman sitting at a rest stop and a cart driver resting on the side of the road next to the ox.
Description:
The scene is set at Takanawa's Ōkido gate, located southeast of Edo. From this point, up to Shinagawa, the Takanawa stretch of coast begins, with a long line of tea houses and restaurants facing the bay. Ōkido translates as "large wooden gate". In 1710 this gate was replaced. In the lower part of the print we see the remains of the two stone walls of the wall entrance on both sides of the street. This is the last gate that travelers coming from Kyoto along the Tōkaidō Road entered Edo and where they had to show their travel documents. Traditionally, Ōkido is also the place where relatives and friends greeted people traveling west along the Tōkaidō road. Nearby, in Kuruma-chō, also known as Ushimachi (ox city), ox carts used in heavy urban construction work were normally stationed. Hokusai also depicted this location in an illustration from the book Ehon Sumidagawa, and it has also been depicted in numerous other prints, particularly by Hiroshige.
Date:
ca. 1800
Size:
Oban yoko-e, 25.5x37.2 cm.
Medium:
Woodblock color print
Remarks:
Another example, ex Hayashi, is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 21.10262.
Conditions:
Very good impression and colour, very good conditions.
Item no:
A 150
Status:
Sold