Goten Hill at Shinagawa on the Tokaido (Tokaido Shinagawa Gotenyama), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Goten Hill at Shinagawa on the Tokaido (Tokaido Shinagawa Gotenyama), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai

Details

Dimensions
26.7 × 38.8 cm (10 1/2 × 15 1/4 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

11 tags

Subject Matter

  • The title and series identify a landscape view with Mount Fuji, and the image visibly includes water, a distant mountain, wooded hills, and an expansive outdoor setting.

  • Flora Visual · 99%

    Numerous trees and shrubs, including trees rendered with pale flowering canopies, occupy the foreground and middle ground.

  • Figures in Nature Visual · 98%

    Groups of small human figures are visibly distributed among the trees, paths, buildings, and hilltops within the landscape.

Styles and Movements

  • Ukiyo-e Both · 99%

    The metadata identifies the work as a Japanese color woodblock print by Hokusai from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, while the image displays the flattened planes, strong outlines, patterned surfaces, and scenic subject associated with ukiyo-e.

Visual Qualities

  • Flatness Visual · 96%

    The composition uses distinct, relatively unmodeled areas of blue, green, cream, and yellow, with forms defined by clear outlines rather than continuous naturalistic shading.

  • Patterns Visual · 95%

    Repeated motifs are visible in the patterned garments, roof structures, branches, foliage, and stippled hills.

  • Contour Line Visual · 97%

    Dark linear contours clearly delineate the mountain, trees, hills, buildings, figures, and architectural details.

  • Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 90%

    The print presents strong blue and green passages contrasted with warm yellow, cream, and pale blossom areas.

Medium and Techniques

  • Woodcut and Linocut Metadata · 100%

    The catalog specifies a color woodblock print in oban format.

Time Periods

  • 19th Century Art Metadata · 100%

    The catalog dates the print to c. 1830/33, within the nineteenth century.

Geographic Regions

  • Japanese Art Metadata · 100%

    The catalog identifies Japan as the place of origin and describes the style as Japanese.

Source & rights

Katsushika Hokusai. Goten Hill at Shinagawa on the Tokaido (Tokaido Shinagawa Gotenyama), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)". The Art Institute of Chicago.