Cleaning a Boat Hull

Data

Cleaning a Boat Hull
Print   (Part of the set: Taisho era subscription prints)

Hokusai

1910s

00024-138
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

This is from Hokusai’s ‘One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji.’ The original title is ‘Noroshi no Fuji’ translated as ‘Fuji with a Signal Fire.’ Presumably, the kite-like object over Fuji is likened to a signal fire. The main subject is obviously the boat; it has landed, and the bottom is being burned by the fishermen in order to remove unwanted marine growths. At the lower left, people are seen busily working, and the cone-shape objects at the lower right and upper left are fishing nets being dried. The few houses built at the edge of the cliff look scary; Hokusai must have exaggerated the view. In the distance, we see a beautiful snow-covered Mt. Fuji.

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