Katsushika Hokusai
Dried Bonito with Mizuhiki Cords
鰹節と水引図
- 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 festive motif in a year of famine
One leaf of the album of twelve thought to have been made around 1836, in the years of the great Tenpo famine, to keep its painter fed. Mizuhiki cords tied around dried bonito belong to celebration and to the giving of gifts — an auspicious motif. That such a festive subject was chosen while the whole country suffered may carry Hokusai's own prayers, or his thought for the lives of those around him.
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