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 Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai

Details

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

  • Landscapes Both · 99%

    The image presents an expansive rural landscape organized around Mount Fuji, and the museum catalog lists landscapes as the subject.

  • 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.

  • Rural Life Visual · 98%

    Thatched buildings, cultivated fields, paths, agricultural installations, and dispersed laborers establish a distinctly rural setting.

  • Water Visual · 97%

    Several broad channels or streams cross the foreground and middle ground, with bridges and raised paths spanning them.

Styles and Movements

  • 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

  • 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

  • 19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

    The catalog dates the work to c. 1830/33, placing it in the nineteenth century.

Geographic Regions

  • 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.