Cranes on snow-covered pine
Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1834 · Color woodblock print; vertical nagaban
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Cranes on snow-covered pine is a public-domain illustration by Katsushika Hokusai, dated c. 1834. Color woodblock print; vertical nagaban. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Cranes on snow-covered pine” (c. 1834) 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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