Katsushika Hokusai
Tea-Whisk Peddler
茶筅売図
- Medium
- Ink and colors on Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- 24.1 × 34.0 cm
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Provenance
- One leaf from an album of twelve paintings. The album's title slip records that in the Tenpo famine of 1836, when many lay fallen in the roads, Hokusai — then seventy-seven — conceived this album and by it barely kept himself fed.
About This Work
A custom of the year's end
Tea-whisk peddlers hawked their whisks at the year's end from the Muromachi period onward. In Edo too, men went about with whisks stuck on a broom-like bamboo pole, and Hokusai was fond of depicting the custom — his eye for the trades of daily life shows plainly in the subjects he chose.
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