Umezawa Marsh in Sagami Province (Soshu Umezawa hidari), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 25.7 × 37.8 cm (10 1/8 × 14 11/16 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
12 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Both · 99%
The catalog identifies the subject as a landscape, and the image visibly depicts marshland, hills, waterways, clouds, and Mount Fuji.
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Animals Visual · 99%
Several long-legged birds, visibly resembling cranes, occupy the foreground and fly across the upper middle of the composition.
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Water Both · 97%
Water channels and marshy expanses are clearly visible, and the title identifies the setting as Umezawa Marsh.
Styles and Movements
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Ukiyo-e Metadata · 96%
Hokusai’s Japanese color woodblock print and its inclusion in the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series place the work within the ukiyo-e print tradition.
Visual Qualities
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Flatness Visual · 96%
Large areas of relatively unmodulated color are bounded by emphatic outlines, producing a distinctly flat graphic surface.
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Patterns Visual · 91%
Repeated marks indicate vegetation and terrain, while recurring cloud and water contours organize the image into visibly patterned bands.
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Color Gradient Visual · 94%
The sky transitions visibly from deep blue at the top to much paler blue near the horizon.
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Contour Line Visual · 95%
Dark outlines define the cranes, mountain, cloud banks, hills, and waterways throughout the image.
Medium and Techniques
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Prints Metadata · 99%
The work is cataloged as a print and specifically as a color woodblock print.
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Woodcut and Linocut Metadata · 99%
The supplied medium is explicitly recorded as a color woodblock print, corresponding to the cataloged woodcut print technique.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The work is dated c. 1830/33, placing it in the nineteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Japanese Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the place of origin as Japan and the style as Japanese culture or style.
Source & rights
Katsushika Hokusai. Umezawa Marsh in Sagami Province (Soshu Umezawa hidari), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)". The Art Institute of Chicago.