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Follow the fishing lines from the man’s hands down into the waves, then look up past the band of mist to the faint cone of Fuji.
At Kajikazawa in Kai Province, a fisherman stands on a rock that juts into rough water and hauls on a fan of lines, while a companion crouches behind him by a basket. Mount Fuji appears only as a pale outline above the mist. Almost the whole view is printed in shades of blue; the Art Institute points to Hokusai’s generous use in this series of Berlin blue, newly affordable in his day.
Color woodblock print; oban · 24.4 × 35.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Art Institute of Chicago: Kajikazawa in Kai Province (Koshu Kajikazawa), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
- Art Institute of Chicago: Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)"
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- Museum title
- Kajikazawa in Kai Province (Koshu Kajikazawa), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Date
- c. 1830/33
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 24.4 × 35.6 cm (9 5/8 × 14 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.