KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Bushu Senju (Senju in Musashi Province)
Woodblock print, from the series Fugaku sanjurokkei (Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji), signed Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo)
Horizontal oban: 9 ¾ x 14 ¾ in. (24.8 x 37.5 cm.)
A traveller stops for a moment at Senju, a northern suburb of Edo, to take in the view of Mount Fuji whilst two anglers cast their lines in the foreground to the left.