Katsuhika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Katsuhika Hokusai (1760-1849)

Senju hanamachi yori chobo no Fuji (Fuji Seen in the Distance from the Senju Pleasure Quarter)

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Katsuhika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Senju hanamachi yori chobo no Fuji (Fuji Seen in the Distance from the Senju Pleasure Quarter)
Woodblock print, from the series Fugaku sanjurokkei (The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji), signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu, published by Nishimura Yohachi (Eijudo)
9 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. (24.4 x 36.5 cm.)

Lot Essay

The scene shows a part of a procession of retainers of a feudal lord, their guns wrapped in red cloth, passing through Senju, the first station on the Nikko Road, which ran northeast of Edo. From the color of the fields and the snowcap of Mount Fuji, the season is late autumn. Some of the samurai have turned their heads to take in the view. In the middle distance is the privately run pleasure district of Senju enclosed by a wood fence.

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