1786
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Fashionable Places in Edo is a 1786 by Katsushika Hokusai, a Japonisme work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a quick sketch from 1785–87. It shows three Edo women in fine kimonos walking past a wooden fence and a blank wall. The lines are light and confident, almost like doodles. This drawing was made to guide woodblock carvers. Hokusai signed it “Shunro,” a name he used early in his career. You can see the pencil marks where changes were made. Check out other works by Katsushika Hokusai.
This hanshita-e by Katsushika Hokusai, created during his Shunro period (1779–1794), is one of ten early drawings from his earliest known group of signed works. The final preparatory drawing for a woodblock print measures in chuban size and remains unsigned. The signature style used in this group dates from 1784 onward. It was acquired in 1910 from Mr. Hogitaro Inada and is part of the museum's Asia Department collection.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Katsushika Hokusai spent his life in Edo, now Tokyo, where he drew and carved prints for a living.
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