Artist:
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Hokusai Katsushika
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Title:
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View from Shichirigahama Beach
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Date:
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1820-1833
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Medium:
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Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
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Dimensions:
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8 3/16 x 7 1/4 in. (20.8 x 18.4 cm) (image, sheet)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Louis W. Hill, Jr.
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Location:
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Gallery 239
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Located about thirty miles south from the city of Edo city (today's Tokyo), Shichirigahama Beach affords a scenic view of the Pacific Ocean as well as the dramatic promontory of Enoshima. Because of its relative proximity to Edo, the area had long been a popular vacation spot for the city's inhabitants. The two women depicted here are likely such visitors from Edo. Both wear ageb?shi, a type of simple headdress originally used upper-class women to protect their oiled coiffures from dust and wind when traveling. By the late 18th century, ageb?shi had been adopted by fashion-conscious women on all levels of society to protect their hairdos. Holding long thin smoking pipes, another fashionable accessory, these women seem to be traveling in style.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Katsushika, Hokusai
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Nationality:
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Japanese
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Life Dates:
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Japanese, 1760 - 1849
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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2 poems (kyo_ka) ro_ Iistu sha(sketched)
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Classification:
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Prints
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Creation Place:
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Asia, Japan, , ,
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Accession #:
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81.133.159
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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