1834
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Traveler Inscribing a Temple Pillar is a 1834 by Katsushika Hokusai, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This image shows a man in traditional Japanese clothing, standing on his head and writing on a tall, narrow pillar. He wears a blue robe with a white undergarment and black socks. A small, indistinct figure is visible at the bottom of the image. The man's pose and the pillar he's writing on are the main focus of the image. The background is a light beige color, which helps the dark lines and colors of the figures stand out. The artist of this work is Katsushika Hokusai.
Pillar prints, or hashira-e (柱絵), are long and narrow Japanese woodblock prints originally intended to decorate wooden pillars.
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Katsushika Hokusai spent his life in Edo, now Tokyo, where he drew and carved prints for a living.
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