Katsushika Hokusai
Dried Squid and Small Fish
するめと雑魚図
- 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
What preserved foods bound together
Dried squid, small fish and other preserved seafoods — commonplace today — held a different value for the people of Edo. They sustained the daily table, and they also bound people to one another through gifts and celebrations; for ordinary households they could be a delicacy, even a luxury. Hokusai captures these familiar foods of Edo life with his singular observing eye.
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