Rising Sun and Pine
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旭日と松図
- Inscription
- Signed “brush of Gakyo Rojin Manji,” with a square intaglio seal reading Katsushika. The slight upward flick at the end of the character for “brush,” together with the period in which this seal was in use, places the work in Hokusai's late seventies (so the vendor's documentation).
- Medium
- Ink and colors on Japanese paper
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About This Work
Perhaps made for a celebration
Between an old pine set boldly at the centre and the young bamboo rising at its lower right, the morning sun climbs large into the eastern sky. Placing a near motif big at the centre and letting the eye travel quietly to the subject behind it was a composition Hokusai commanded well; Mishima Pass in Kai Province, from the Thirty-six Views, is built in almost the same way. The old pine, the young bamboo and the rising sun are all of high auspicious meaning, and the fan was very likely made to order for a celebration.
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