Cleaning a Boat Hull

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Cleaning a Boat Hull
Print   (Part of the set: Hokusai Famous Works)

Katsushika Hokusai
Takamizawa
Post-war

00039-045
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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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