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Look at the vertical stripes of falling water against the green cliffs, then at the spray rising where it meets the pool and the travelers below.
About 1833 Hokusai designed A Tour of the Waterfalls in Various Provinces, published, like his Fuji series, by Nishimuraya Yohachi. At Yōrō in Mino Province the water drops in long, straight strands of blue and white, and travelers gather below, one carrying round loads on his back and others resting under a thatched shelter. He signed it as Iitsu, formerly Hokusai, one of the many names he used.
Color woodblock print; oban · Approx: 38.2 × 25.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Art Institute of Chicago: Yoro Waterfall in Mino Province (Mino no kuni Yoro no taki), from the series Tour of the Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku Takimeguri)
- 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)"
- Art Institute of Chicago: Katsushika Hokusai
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- Museum title
- Yoro Waterfall in Mino Province (Mino no kuni Yoro no taki), from the series Tour of the Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku Takimeguri)
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 Japanese, 1760-1849
- Date
- c. 1833
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- Approx: 38.2 × 25.4 cm (15 × 10 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Chester W. Wright
- 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.