Shimotsuke Kurokamiyama Kirifuri no taki (Falling Mist Waterfall at Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province), from the series Shokoku taki meguri (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces)
Katsushika Hokusai, Shimotsuke Kurokamiyama Kirifuri no taki (Falling Mist Waterfall at Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province), from the series Shokoku taki meguri (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces), 1833/1834, color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, public domain, 32.441
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- Title
Shimotsuke Kurokamiyama Kirifuri no taki (Falling Mist Waterfall at Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province), from the series Shokoku taki meguri (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces)
- Related Titles
display title: Shimotsuke Kurokamiyama Kirifuri no taki (The Falling Mist Waterfall at Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province), from the series Shokoku taki meguri (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces)
original language: 下野黒髪山 きりふりの瀧
series (original language): 諸国瀧廻り
series (translated): A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces
series (transliterated): Shokoku taki meguri
translated: Falling Mist Waterfall at Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province
transliterated: Shimotsuke Kurokamiyama Kirifuri no taki
- Artist
- Related People
publisher: Nishimura Yohachi (Japanese, active mid-19th century)
- Date
1833/1834
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 14 7/8 in x 10 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
title: 諸國瀧廻り // 下野黒髪山きりふりの瀧, printed in blue ink within double blue rectangular cartouche, upper right Transliteration (Translation): Shokoku taki meguri // Shimotsuke Kurokamiyama Kirifuri no taki (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces // The Falling Mist Waterfall at Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province) Language: Japanese
publisher's mark: 栄壽堂, printed in red relief within square cartouche, lower right Transliteration (Translation): Eijudō ([seal of the publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi 西村屋与八]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo publisher, firm active c. 1751-1860
censor's mark: 極, printed in red ink; relief, lower right, to left of signature Transliteration: kiwame Language: Japanese
signature: 前北斎為一筆, printed in blue ink, lower right Transliteration (Translation): Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu (brushed [by] Iitsu, formerly Hokusai) Language: Japanese
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
Japanese Traditional Prints
- Object Type
relief print
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
- Accession Number
32.441
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
This series is a tribute to the spiritual connection between humans and nature. Hokusai goes beyond naturalistic depiction to give each waterfall a unique character, from the writhing flow of the Falling Mist Waterfall in Shimotsuke to the forceful deluge of Yōrō Falls in Mino. Like mountains, waterfalls were traditionally regarded as sacred spaces where gods and spirits dwelled. As Hokusai’s reverent onlookers make clear, to be close to a waterfall was to experience the presence of the divine in nature.
- Exhibitions
2011 The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum Portland Art Museum
2022; 2023 Human Nature: 150 Years of Japanese Landscape Prints Portland Art Museum