A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)
Kiyotaki Kannon Waterfall at Sakanoshita on the Tōkaidō
Tōkaidō Sakanoshita Kiyotaki kannon
Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1832
What it is
Pilgrims climb to a cliffside shrine of Kannon at Sakanoshita on the Tōkaidō, a thatched teahouse sits below, and a thin waterfall drops beside them.
Why it matters
Hokusai joins the climb, the rest and the prayer in one tall sheet.
What to notice
The cliff rises in stacked blocks of colour, and the path up it zigzags between them.
The pilgrim stops for tea on the way up to the shrine.
The record
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760–1849)
- Series
- A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)
- Date
- c. 1832
- Medium
- woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art · JP2926
Impression note. A vertical ōban, about 37 by 26 cm on the Met record. Hokusai’s falling water is carved as long, separate lines, and a clean impression keeps them unbroken from the lip of the fall to the pool. This is the largest clean open impression of the design the Met holds. Impression variance is real — printings differ in wiping and fading — and choosing the finest openly held impression is the curatorial act.
Public domain; faithfully reproduced.
Bring it home
Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm.
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