Katsushika Hokusai
Puppy and Roof Tile
犬と瓦図
- 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 roof tile and a puppy
Like Frog and Saxifrage in the album of ten leaves held by the Hokusai-kan in Obuse, this leaf takes a roof tile as its motif — a turn of mind characteristic of Hokusai. A piece of architecture set beside a living creature makes still object and life answer one another. Hokusai was known for his fondness for puppies, and a warm, affectionate gaze rests on his subject.
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