Whaling off the Coast of the Goto Islands (Goto kujira tsuki), from the series "One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)"
Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1831–33 · Color woodblock print; chuban
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Whaling off the Coast of the Goto Islands (Goto kujira tsuki), from the series "One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)" is a public-domain illustration by Katsushika Hokusai, dated c. 1831–33. Color woodblock print; chuban. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Whaling off the Coast of the Goto Islands (Goto kujira tsuki), from the series "One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)"” (c. 1831–33) is a design by Hokusai, usually a woodblock print. Museums often hold different impressions of the same image, especially from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
About the artist
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. The series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, including Under the Wave off Kanagawa, made his landscape prints famous well beyond Japan.
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