Beneath Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannenbashi shita) from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 25.8 × 37.2 cm (10 1/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
- Origin
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Holding institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image provider
- art-institute-chicago
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes and Waterscapes Both · 99%
The image depicts a river landscape organized around a large bridge, with distant Mount Fuji, shorelines, trees, buildings, and boats; the catalog title identifies the scene as Beneath Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa.
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Water Visual · 99%
Water occupies the lower and middle portions of the composition beneath the bridge and around the boats.
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Modes of Transportation Visual · 98%
Several boats are clearly visible on the water, including a large cargo vessel in the foreground and smaller craft farther away.
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Figures in Nature Visual · 96%
People are visible on the bridge, in the boats, and along the riverbanks within the depicted landscape.
Styles and Movements
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Ukiyo-e Interpretive · 96%
The work is strongly associated with ukiyo-e through Hokusai’s authorship, its Japanese woodblock-print format, and its graphic contouring, flat color areas, and depiction of an urban pleasure-world landscape.
Visual Qualities
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Linear Forms Visual · 95%
The composition uses strong outlines and repeated horizontal, vertical, and curving structures in the bridge, embankments, shorelines, and boats.
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 91%
The print combines saturated indigo and blue with green, tan, salmon, and cream passages in a clearly polychrome palette.
Medium and Techniques
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Woodcut and Linocut Metadata · 98%
The catalog identifies the medium as a color woodblock print in oban format.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the print to c. 1830/33, within the nineteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Japanese Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog gives Japan as the place of origin and identifies the work’s style as Japanese culture or style.
Source & rights
Katsushika Hokusai. Beneath Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannenbashi shita) from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)". The Art Institute of Chicago.