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The Minister Toru Daijin Standing by a Lake Beneath a Crescent Moon, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry

Katsushika Hokusai · 1834–35

Katsushika Hokusai: 1760–1849

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Hokusai

Biography

Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist associated with Edo, now Tokyo, whose long career encompassed paintings, illustrated books and designs for woodblock prints. He trained in the Katsukawa studio under Shunshō before developing an independent practice and using several artistic names. His print designs range from people and urban activity to landscapes, plants and animals. The series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji includes Under the Wave off Kanagawa, commonly called The Great Wave. Artline's selection pairs views from that series with flower studies, making it possible to compare distant landscape, changing viewpoints and close observation of small natural subjects.

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  • Katsukawa Shunshōdocumented
    Evidence

    The British Museum’s biographical timeline identifies Hokusai’s training in the studio of Katsukawa Shunshō; no disputed entry year is asserted here.

  • Sesshū Tōyōeditorial inference
    Evidence

    The biography explicitly names the listed painter(s) as an influence; retained as a secondary-source assertion. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.

  • Katsukawa Shunshōeditorial inference
    Evidence

    Wikidata assertion retained for review; its references, if supplied, have not been independently verified. Teaching is recorded separately and does not itself establish artistic influence.

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The Minister Toru Daijin Standing by a Lake Beneath a Crescent Moon, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry

1834–35

color woodblock print

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Medium
color woodblock print
Dimensions
Overall: 52 x 23 cm (20 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.)
Collection no.
1916.1142
Attribution
By the artist
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Katsushika Hokusai. The Minister Toru Daijin Standing by a Lake Beneath a Crescent Moon, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry. Katsushika Hokusai; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Katsushika Hokusai. The Minister Toru Daijin Standing by a Lake Beneath a Crescent Moon, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry. Katsushika Hokusai; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.