A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)
Rōben Waterfall at Ōyama in Sagami Province
Sōshū Ōyama Rōben no taki
Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1827 (date on the Met record)
What it is
Bathers stand beneath the slender Rōben Waterfall at Ōyama in Sagami, a few bare figures under the stream.
Why it matters
Where the other sheets show people looking at water, this one shows them standing in it.
What to notice
The fall is a thin white ribbon, and the bathers beneath it are almost lost in its spray.
Some come to look at the waterfall, and some come to stand under it.
The record
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760–1849)
- Series
- A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)
- Date
- c. 1827 (date on the Met record)
- Medium
- woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art · JP1087
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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