Monk Selling Ceremonial Tea Whisks
Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1802 · Ink and light color on paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Monk Selling Ceremonial Tea Whisks is a public-domain painting by Katsushika Hokusai, dated c. 1802. Ink and light color on paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Monk Selling Ceremonial Tea Whisks” (c. 1802) 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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