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Travelers bent against the wind on a path through reeds, with sheets of paper and a hat flying across the sky

Ejiri in Suruga Province

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830–1832

What you see

A path winds through a plain of reeds from the lower left corner toward the right. Several travelers push forward, bent against the wind: some clutch their hats, one covers his head, and on the left a figure grips a flapping robe beside two thin trees bending in the gusts. Behind, Fuji is just a fine outline, and the sky fills with leaves.

Blue-green reeds and a beige sky dominate, the sky turning a brownish pink toward the top. The orange hats are the liveliest notes. Seek out the small orange structure among the reeds right of center, perhaps a shrine, and the tiny figure walking alone on the left.

About Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai was born in Edo, today’s Tokyo, in 1760 and died there in 1849, after a long career as a painter, book illustrator and designer of woodblock prints. When he was about seventy he created “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”, whose bright imported Prussian blue helped make landscape prints popular in Japan. Its most famous image, “The Great Wave”, became an icon of world art, and his daughter Katsushika Ōi, who worked by his side, was a remarkable painter too.

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