Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)
Lot 17From a Private English Collection

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)

Mariko

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)
Mariko
Mariko: 2 Ri to Okabe, from an untitled series of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road

Woodblock print, signed Gakyojin Hokusai ga, circa 1804
Double-width horizontal kokonotsugiri (one-ninth oban) (13.5 x 36.4cm.)

Specialist note

A group of travellers have stopped at a restaurant at Mariko, the twentieth of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido, and are enjoying a meal served by two women.

For another impression in the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison go to:
https://embarkkiosk.chazen.wisc.edu/OBJ7662

For another impression in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), New York, lacking the long inscription, go to:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37391