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Mino no kuni Yōrō taki (Yōrō Falls in Mino Province), from the series Shokoku taki meguri (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces)


Katsushika Hokusai, Mino no kuni Yōrō taki (Yōrō Falls in Mino Province), from the series Shokoku taki meguri (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces), 1833/1834, color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, public domain, 32.443

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Title

Mino no kuni Yōrō taki (Yōrō Falls in Mino Province), from the series Shokoku taki meguri (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces)

Related Titles

original language: 美濃ノ国養老の滝

series (original language): 諸國瀧廻り

series (translated): A Tour of Waterfalls Around the Country

series (transliterated): Shokoku taki meguri

translated: Yōrō Falls in Mino Province

transliterated: Mino no kuni Yōrō no taki

Artist

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)

Related People

publisher: Nishimura Yohachi (Japanese, active mid-19th century)

Date

1833/1834

Period

Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)

Medium

color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e

Dimensions (H x W x D)

image/sheet: 14 5/8 in x 10 3/16 in

Inscriptions & Markings

title: 諸國瀧廻り // 美濃ノ国養老の滝, printed in blue ink within a double rectangular cartouche, upper left Transliteration (Translation): Shokoku taki meguri // Mino no kuni Yōrō no taki (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces // The Care-of-the-aged Waterfall in Mino Province) Language: Japanese Description: Yōrō literally translates as caring for the elderly, or, spending one's old age in comfort

publisher's mark: 栄壽堂, printed in red relief within square cartouche, center right Transliteration (Translation): Eijudō ([seal of the publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi 西村屋与八]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo publisher, firm active c. 1751-1860

censor's mark: 極, printed in red relief within circular cartouche, center right Transliteration (Translation): kiwame (approval) Language: Japanese

signature: 前北斎為一筆, printed in blue ink, center right Transliteration (Translation): saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu (brushed [by] Iitsu, formerly Hokusai) Language: Japanese Description: Hokusai used many signatures over the course of his many decades of activity.

Collection Area

Asian Art; Graphic Arts

Category

Prints

Japanese Traditional Prints

Object Type

relief print

Culture

Japanese

Credit Line

The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection

Accession Number

32.443

Copyright

public domain

Terms

Edo

Japanese woodblock prints

landscapes

nishiki-e

oban

relief printing

relief prints

The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection

waterfalls

woodcuts

Description

This series is a tribute to the spiritual connection between humans and nature. Hokusai goes beyond naturalistic depiction to give each waterfall a unique character, from the writhing flow of the Falling Mist Waterfall in Shimotsuke to the forceful deluge of Yōrō Falls in Mino. Like mountains, waterfalls were traditionally regarded as sacred spaces where gods and spirits dwelled. As Hokusai’s reverent onlookers make clear, to be close to a waterfall was to experience the presence of the divine in nature.

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