Katsushika Hokusai
Slice of Salmon
鮭の切身図
- 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
Salmon in Edo
Salmon, an everyday food today, was no everyday fish for ordinary people in the Edo period. Before salted salmon began to arrive in quantity from Ezo it was a precious thing, and since salt itself was costly, salted salmon was hardly common until the middle of the period. Hokusai was among the painters who returned to the subject, bringing a familiar food that carried special meaning vividly to life with a concise brush.
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