Kajikazawa in Kai Province, ca. 1830–32
Katsushika Hokusai
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · 10 x 15 in. (25.4 x 38.1 cm)
A fisherman braces against the same great wave motif on a rockier coast.
A fisherman casts his lines from a rocky spur as Mount Fuji rises through the mist beyond, the whole scene tuned to shades of blue. Hokusai balances human effort against serene nature in one of the quietest, most poetic prints of his Fuji series.
What you're looking at
The fisherman's lines fall in exactly the angle of Fuji's slope behind him, so the man and the mountain are drawn with one gesture. Almost the whole print is worked in blues — Hokusai leans on the newly available Prussian blue and lets the paper carry the mist rather than printing it.
On a Frame TV
About 1.46:1, so the clean crop trims top and bottom modestly and keeps both the fisherman and the mountain behind him. Soft, cool and worked almost entirely in blues; a restful picture that wants gentle indoor light rather than direct sun.
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