View the striking mountains, rivers, and cities of Japan in the woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige.
This is one of Hokusai’s rare landscape paintings. Travellers make their way to and from the path leading up to the Wakamiya shrine in the Kasuga Taisha shrine complex in Nara. This style of this painting recalls the landscape print series that Hokusai designed during the same period of his life.
Katz, Janice, Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with an introductory essay by Oliver Impey (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003), no. 53 on p. 182-184, pp. 15 & 153, illus. pp. 182-183 & 185
Hillier, J., The Harari Collection of Japanese Paintings and Drawings, copyright owned by Michael Harari, 3 vols (London: Lund Humphries, 1973), no. 128 on p. 234, illus. pp. 235-237 fig. 128
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