The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 26.5 × 38.1 cm (10 3/8 × 15 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
8 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Both · 99%
The image presents an expansive rural landscape organized around Mount Fuji, and the museum catalog lists landscapes as the subject.
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Work and Workers Visual · 98%
Numerous figures are visibly engaged in coordinated agricultural labor, carrying containers and bundles through the fields and working beside the structures.
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Rural Life Visual · 98%
Thatched buildings, cultivated fields, paths, agricultural installations, and dispersed laborers establish a distinctly rural setting.
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Water Visual · 97%
Several broad channels or streams cross the foreground and middle ground, with bridges and raised paths spanning them.
Styles and Movements
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Ukiyo-e Interpretive · 93%
Hokusai’s authorship, Japanese color-woodblock format, and inclusion in the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series strongly associate the work with ukiyo-e print culture.
Medium and Techniques
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Prints Both · 99%
The museum identifies the object as a color woodblock print and print; its printed, layered-color surface is also directly visible.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to c. 1830/33, placing it in the nineteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Japanese Art Metadata · 99%
The work was made in Japan by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, and the catalog identifies its style as Japanese.
Source & rights
Katsushika Hokusai. The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)". The Art Institute of Chicago.