A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)
Yōrō Waterfall in Mino Province
Mino no Yōrō no taki
Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1832
What it is
The Yōrō Waterfall in Mino drops in a tall vertical curtain into a pool, while a woodcutter and visitors stand small at its foot.
Why it matters
Hokusai runs the water almost the full height of the sheet, and the figures are left a sliver of ground at the bottom.
What to notice
The fall is a long column of white edged with blue, and the rocks beside it are dark and rounded.
Standing at the foot of falling water, everyone looks small.
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 · JP2931
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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